Questions tagged [certbot]
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certbot setting up ssl, error "No module named 'ConfigParser'"
I am setting up my website to use https via certbot.
I am following the directions here
I run the wget and chmod with no problems, but when I execute:
./certbot-auto
I get the following errors:
Setting up gyp (0.1+20150913git1f374df9-1ubuntu1)…
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john-jones
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How can I disable "Subject Alternative Name" from being included in Certbot Let's Encrypt certificates?
Using Certbot to install an R3 Let's Encrypt certificate on an nginx webserver causes all the other domains in the nginx configuration to be included under "Subject Alternative Name" on the certificate. This is undesirable for my use case.
I read…
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Altimus Prime
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Letsencrypt for all subdomains *.example.com
I'd like to obtain one certificate working for all my subdomains *.example.com.
This works:
certbot-auto certonly --webroot --webroot-path /home/www/example/ --domain example.com
--domain www.example.com --email…
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Basj
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Installing certbot - error - "nothing provides pyparsing"
I'm trying to set up let's encrypt on my Amazon ec2 RHEL nginx server, via the command $ sudo yum install certbot-nginx but it keeps failing:
$ sudo yum install certbot-nginx
Last metadata expiration check: 2:58:11 ago on Sat 17 Aug 2019 11:29:45 PM…
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Mike Willis
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Let's encrypt: renew vs new, or: why renew
Might be a stupid question but: where is the difference between renewing a Let's encrypt certificate and just getting a new one?
Related question and background for this question: do I need to keep the account data from certbot? As long as I can…
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sc911
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How to make Certbot ignore a particular domain in nginx?
I have ~30 domains running on my server, all of them with SSL certificates managed by the Certbot nginx plugin. All of them, except one... let's call it selfsigned.example.com.
This domain uses a self-signed certificate because it's being accessed…
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Thomas
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nginx "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS" after add ssl
After i add Let's Encrypt certificate to my website with CertBot
i get ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS when i try to visit the domain of my website.
some info :
-mywebsite build with django, nginx and gunicorn.
server {
server_name www.example.com…
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DAMAR225
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Certbot renew certificates with autoprovided webroot
I have created some certificated using certbot's --standalone option but I want to renew them so I run (testing if will get renewed):
sudo certbot renew --dry-run
But for some domains I get the error
Attempting to renew cert from…
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Dimitrios Desyllas
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SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG certbot
I have the following setup:
Apache 2.4
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
letsencrypt / certbot
Now, as soon as I enable the following .conf on the default server, all my configured top level domains receive a SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG error. If I disable this…
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Michael
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monit, let's encrypt, and file permissions
I decided to put monit on my vps running centos 7.
I've already got let's encrypt on the server and the certs are installed. I wanted to point monit at the fullchain.pem or the cert.pem, but I get this error.
Dec 30 00:56:52 [23926]: The SSL…
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johndoeysmith
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Can't install certbot on ubuntu 16.04.3
I'm trying to install certbot in my ubuntu 16.04.3 server, the same commands that work with 16.04.2 won't do it. The python installed is default Python 2.7.12
This is the installation script:
#!/bin/bash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install…
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Gus
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Will certbot actually renew my certificate?
Looking at /etc/cron.d/certbot, I don't think it will! That file includes the line:
0 */12 * * * root test -x /usr/bin/certbot -a \! -d /run/systemd/system && perl -e 'sleep int(rand(43200))' && certbot -q renew
and, unless I'm reading it wrong,…
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IpsRich
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certbot renew crashes nginx and all websites go offline
When sudo certbot renew command is run, nginx server is crashing. The error log in systemd looks like this:
- The job identifier is 48862.
Sep 01 11:31:52 phoenix.medialab.ntua.gr systemd[1]: nginx.service: Main process exited, code=dumped,…
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Can I enable TLS 1.3 with Certbot?
I am working with Nginx and Certbot, I have secured a domain with HTTPS. I would like to get the domain up to TLS 1.3.
The Nginx server block for my domain get's it's SSL protocols from the included file Certbot creates.
The file…
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Norman Potts
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Export client certificate from Let's Encrypt certificates
I'm running Debian and have certbot for creating Let's Encrypt certificate.
I act as client towards a TLS server, and needs to handover my client certificate for approval.
I've got the following files generated by…
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Alfred Balle
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