Certbot

certbot is a fully-featured, extensible client for the Let’s Encrypt CA (or any other CA that speaks the ACME protocol defined in 2015-2016) that can automate the tasks of obtaining certificates and configuring webservers to use them. This client runs on Unix-based operating systems.

• Ubuntu: apt install certbot
• macOS: brew install certbot

Ubuntu:

• Binaries: certbot and letscrypt
• Configuration files: /etc/letsencrypt

/etc/letsencrypt/renewal

• Renewals configuration: /etc/cron.d/certbot
• Logs: /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

Examples

certbot -d YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.com --manual --preferred-challenges dns certonly

certbot -d *.YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.com --manual --preferred-challenges dns certonly

Request a certificate

• Stop your webserver:

systemctl stop nginx

• certbot certonly --standalone --preferred-challenges http -d YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.com

Client with the currently selected authenticator does not support any combination of challenges that will satisfy the CA. You may need to use an authenticator plugin that can do challenges over DNS.

• certbot certonly --standalone --agree-tos --preferred-challenges dns -d *.YOUR_DOMAIN_NAME.com (You will be asked for information)

None of the preferred challenges are supported by the selected plugin

nginx.conf

ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/fullchain.pem;

ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/www.example.com/privkey.pem;

openssl x509 -text -noout -in cert.pem

certbot certonly --standalone

certbot --nginx
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
The requested nginx plugin does not appear to be installed

• certbot certificates
• certbot renew
• certbot renew --force-renewal

certbot delete --cert-name YOUR_CERT_NAME
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

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Deleted all files relating to certificate YOUR_CERT_NAME.
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• Changing a Certificdate's Domain: certbot certonly --cert-name example.com -d example.org,www.example.org
• Automated renewals: systemctl list-timers

Activities

• Read certbot certbot changelog: https://github.com/certbot/certbot/blob/master/certbot/CHANGELOG.md
• certbot renew

See also

• HTTP, HTTP client, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS, HSTS CSR, TLS, SSL, openSSL, WebSockets, WebRTC, ssl_certificate QUIC, HPKP, CT, List of HTTP status codes, URL redirection, Content-type:, Webhook, HTTP headers, --insecure, Axios HTTP client, HTTP cookies, HTTP ETag, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
• Web server: Nginx: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf, nginx -t, Nginx logs, Nginx change log, PHP, php-fpm, Let's encrypt, Nginx directives, Reverse Proxy, Configure HTTP redirection Nginx, Return, proxy_pass (Reverse proxy), ngx_http_rewrite_module, /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/, error.log, access.log, /nginx status, AIO
• CA, Root Certificates, FreeIPA, PKI, OpenCA, Wildcard certificate, certtool, certbot (Let's Encrypt), certinfo (Cloudflare), ACME, Boulder, cfssl (Cloudflare), Public key certificate, public key, TLS and X.509, OCSP, Subject Alternative Name (SAN), openssl ca, Self signed certificate, CSR, keytool, ACM, KMS, aws acm, IdenTrust, multirootca, cert-manager, ca_cert_identifier
• DNS: Linux DNS, IP, systemd-resolve, /etc/hosts, whois, Domain registrar, dig, host, nslookup, scutil --dns dnsmasq, bind, delv, .local, .internal, .onion, FQDN, TTL, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/systemd/resolved.conf, dscacheutil (macOS), hostname, hostnamectl, bind, resolvectl status, DNS sinkhole, Domain name server, LLMNR, Resource records:MX, TXT, NS, CAA, SSHFP, Apex, CNAME, Wildcard DNS records, Subdomain, /etc/nsswitch.conf, 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, CoreDNS, dnsPolicy:, Google Public DNS, DNS caches, Kubernetes ExternalDNS, DNS forwarding, IDNA2008, DNS-1035, Domain name registrars, Split-view DNS, Pi-hole, NextDNS
• Certbot, Let's Encrypt: certbot (command), plugins, OCSP, certbot certificates, certbot renew (examples), /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log, Certificate Checker, Certbot changelog, certbot --help, /etc/letsencrypt/

https://certbot.eff.org/docs/intro.html

https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#changing-a-certificate-s-domains