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crypto:letsencrypt [2019-02-20 20:10] – adding badphotography domains gabrielcrypto:letsencrypt [2019-10-16 13:03] (current) – updated to semi-manual process with dns-route53 gabriel
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 We're currently using Let's Encrypt to generate and manage TLS certificates for quay.net and several other domains. We're currently using Let's Encrypt to generate and manage TLS certificates for quay.net and several other domains.
  
-Now that Let's Encrypt supports wildcard certs, our cert has been modified accordingly.  Currently quay.net is hosted on Amazon's EC2 and uses the AWS Route 53 service for public DNS on the Internet.  Ideally we'd be using the [[https://github.com/certbot/certbot/tree/master/certbot-dns-route53|certbot-dns-route53]] plugin, however it is not available in the OS distribution of certbot in Debian 9 and installing and running it from source is a dependency nightmare.+Currently quay.net is hosted on Amazon's EC2 and uses the AWS Route 53 service for public DNS on the Internet.  We can use the certbot dns-route53 plugin with Debian 10 to manage authentication using the following script.
  
-Thus, we'll use the manual process for generating and managing our certificates.  Let's get to it!+<code bash> 
 +#!/bin/bash
  
-===== certbot manual DNS validation =====+# my domains 
 +mapfile -t domains <<-DOMAINS 
 +quay.net 
 +gabriel.to 
 +gabrielobrien.ca 
 +k538.ca 
 +unx.is 
 +badphoto.ca 
 +badphotography.ca 
 +DOMAINS
  
-First we'll install the distribution package for certbot + dependencies:+# AWS credentials 
 +export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="my key id" 
 +export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="my secret"
  
-<code sh> +# generate wildcard records for each domain 
-apt install certbot +for domain in ${domains[@]}; do 
-</code>+  domainlist+="-d $domain -d *.${domain} " 
 +done
  
-Now let's request a new certificate, we're going to have to make some manual changes to DNS and add a challenge response for the ACME service after we do this. +systemctl stop nginx 
- +certbot certonly --dns-route53 $domainlist 
-<code sh> +systemctl start nginx
-sudo certbot --manual --force-interactive certonly+
 </code> </code>
- 
-Enter our domains at the prompt. 
- 
-<code sh> 
-quay.net *.quay.net gabriel.to *.gabriel.to gabrielobrien.ca *.gabrielobrien.ca k538.ca *.k538.ca unx.is *.unx.is badphoto.ca *.badphoto.ca badphotography.ca *.badphotography.ca 
-</code> 
- 
-If all goes well, you will now be prompted to update a DNS TXT record for each domain as well as a file on the local webserver to allow the ACME service to validate that you actually control the domain(s) in question. 
- 
-The instructions are provided at each step and are fairly simple.  The prompt will look something like this for the DNS records: 
- 
-<code sh> 
-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
-Please deploy a DNS TXT record under the name 
-_acme-challenge.quay.net with the following value: 
- 
-<a random string of characters> 
- 
-Before continuing, verify the record is deployed. 
-(This must be set up in addition to the previous challenges; do not remove, 
-replace, or undo the previous challenge tasks yet. Note that you might be 
-asked to create multiple distinct TXT records with the same name. This is 
-permitted by DNS standards.) 
- 
-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
-Press Enter to Continue 
-</code> 
- 
-After you have made the DNS changes for each domain, you will be prompted to create the challenge responses on your webserver, again instructions are provided. 
- 
-<code sh> 
-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
-Create a file containing just this data: 
- 
-<another random string of characters> 
- 
-And make it available on your web server at this URL: 
- 
-http://quay.net/.well-known/acme-challenge/<yet another string of characters> 
- 
-(This must be set up in addition to the previous challenges; do not remove, 
-replace, or undo the previous challenge tasks yet.) 
- 
-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
-Press Enter to Continue 
-</code> 
- 
-If all goes well, then your cert will be updated and you just need to restart your webserver(s).  If not, read the error message or the logs and it should give you a hint of what went wrong.  The most common issue will be a typo or cut-and-paste error. 
- 
-It's a good idea to clean up these records now to avoid a potential backdoor that might allow somebody to take over your certificate and/or webserver.  You only need to do this every 90 days, and eventually the route53 package will be properly integrated in Debian 9. 
- 
-On our webserver this can be done by running the ''clean-acme-challenge.sh''. 
crypto/letsencrypt.1550711434.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019-02-20 20:10 by gabriel