LE update cleared my custom nginx.conf

[myrecs]

2026-05-10 06:53:05 v-restart-service  'bind9'
2026-05-10 06:53:05 v-delete-dns-record  'www-root' 'domain.com' '25'
2026-05-10 06:53:08 v-restart-service  'bind9'
2026-05-10 06:53:05 v-add-dns-record  'www-root' 'domain.com' '@' 'CAA' '0 issue "letsencrypt.org"'
2026-05-10 06:53:12 v-restart-service  'nginx'
2026-05-10 06:53:24 v-restart-service  'nginx'
2026-05-10 06:53:35 v-generate-ssl-cert  'domain.com' '[email protected]' 'US' 'California' 'San Francisco' 'Hestia' 'IT' 'www.domain.com'
2026-05-10 06:53:38 v-delete-web-domain-ssl-force  'www-root' 'domain.com' 'no' 'yes'
2026-05-10 06:53:40 v-restart-service  'nginx'
2026-05-10 06:53:40 v-delete-web-domain-ssl  'www-root' 'domain.com'
2026-05-10 06:53:41 v-add-web-domain-ssl  'www-root' 'domain.com' '/tmp/tmp.p82QdV8kpw' 'same' 'updatessl'
2026-05-10 06:53:43 v-restart-service  'nginx'
2026-05-10 06:53:44 v-add-web-domain-ssl-force  'www-root' 'domain.com'
2026-05-10 06:53:44 v-add-letsencrypt-domain  'www-root' 'domain.com' 'www.domain.com'

I have custom nginx template set in settings (i’ve copied ready template, made it custom and set, as recommended). but few days ago i’ve found that my custom conf was modified and reversed to “clear“ version, all my changes were removed.

[sahsanu]

Do you think it’s a similar issue to this one?

Nginx.conf_redirect files being removed

Hi, I’m not too sure whats going on here. My redirect files seem to have vanished! Looking at the backup vs the current conf folder, I can see nginx.conf_redirect , nginx.ssl.conf_redirect and nginx.forcessl.conf are missing: [image] Its done this on multiple user accounts. I also had it on another server, which we noticed stopped stopped doing a SSL redirect I’m not looking forward to fixing this. We have hundreds of sites on the servers Has anyone else seen t…

[myrecs]

in my case they are modified, namely: nginx.ssl.conf, nginx.forcessl.conf, nginx.conf_letsencrypt

[sahsanu]

@myrecs

nginx.ssl.conf

That file shouldn’t be modified by LE update. How did you create the template? What’s the template name?

[myrecs]

in /usr/local/hestia/data/templates/web/nginx/php-fpm

[myrecs]

[myrecs]

06:53:41 the exact modification time

[sahsanu]

I see nothing in script v-add-web-domain-ssl that could modify nginx.ssl.conf during LE update. Removing letsencrypt and forcessl yes, but not the main conf.

Could you please show the output of your cron jobs?

crontab -l -u hestiaweb

[myrecs]

crontab: user `hestiaweb’ unknown

[sahsanu]

If the hestiaweb user doesn’t exist, you’re not using the latest Hestia version (1.9.x). What’s your Hestia and OS version?

[myrecs]

yes i have old hestia version 1.4.15

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

[sahsanu]

Wow, that’s pretty old. Then, I’m sorry, but I can’t help. I don’t know what bugs in that version could be causing the issue.

[myrecs]

turned updates off long ago because of conf files replacement on updates (didn’t get into templates settings and other) and forgot, but replacements are still here) ok i’ll update, will see, thx

[sahsanu]

Make backups, if you can do a snapshot of your server do it. Also, you should also upgrade Ubuntu, version 20.04 is not supported anymore either by Sury’s PHP packages or Hestia.