Updating Let's Encrypt

1 Jul 2016

It’s been a while since my last post and Let’s Encrypt CLI tools also change. I just want to put an update on my last post on Let’s Encerypt.

The new tool called Certbot.

Getting Started

$ wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
$ chmod a+x certbot-auto

Cerbot installs all of its own dependencies and updates the client code automatically, you just need to run:

$ ./certbot-auto

Certbot supports a number of different “plugins” that can be used to obtain and/or install certificates. But unfortunately as this post written, it has no support for NginX so let’s just do it manually

./certbot-auto certonly

That’s it. You have your free SSL certificate, put it on your nginx site configuration and you’re done.