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You might be happy to know that integration between Let's Encrypt and Nginx is something that's been provided by Certbot for years. The Nginx plugin for Certbo

by Gormo 2y ago

You might be happy to know that integration between Let's Encrypt and Nginx is something that's been provided by Certbot for years. The Nginx plugin for Certbot will identify active domains from your Nginx config, create and renew certificates, automating domain validation through the web server in real-time, and will automatically update your config files with both certificate paths and HTTP redirects to HTTPS (if desired).

dlbucci 2y ago
Which is what I used for years, but recently discovered that Certbot now requires snapd to be installed. I did that and snapd bricked my server: it wouldn't start until I uninstalled it. That's when I switched to Caddy.
- Gormo 2y ago
  That's very definitely not true. Perhaps they're defaulting to Snap for convenience, but Certbot is a cross-platform Python program, and can just be installed via pip: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip Non-Ubuntu distros also often have standard packages in their repos with no reference to Snap, and EFF also distributes a Docker container with Certbot pre-configured, if Docker is your thing.
  - dlbucci 2y ago
    I wasn't aware of that. It was true for my version of Ubuntu (18), according to the website: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=ubuntubionic https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=ubuntubioni... Perhaps I had other options the website didn't make me aware of, but it seemed like enough of a hassle that I just dropped it.
    - Gormo 2y ago
      Ubuntu is the one forcing the use of Snaps, and it's one of the reasons lots of people are abandoning Ubuntu on both server and desktop. You're going to run into this semi-regularly with a variety of software if you continue to use Ubuntu. FWIW, Certbot is available in the standard repos for almost all other major distros.
engine_y 2y ago
Tnx. That's helpful to know.

by Gormo 2y ago

dlbucci 2y ago

Which is what I used for years, but recently discovered that Certbot now requires snapd to be installed. I did that and snapd bricked my server: it wouldn't start until I uninstalled it. That's when I switched to Caddy.

Gormo 2y ago
That's very definitely not true. Perhaps they're defaulting to Snap for convenience, but Certbot is a cross-platform Python program, and can just be installed via pip: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=pip Non-Ubuntu distros also often have standard packages in their repos with no reference to Snap, and EFF also distributes a Docker container with Certbot pre-configured, if Docker is your thing.
- dlbucci 2y ago
  I wasn't aware of that. It was true for my version of Ubuntu (18), according to the website: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=ubuntubionic https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=ubuntubioni... Perhaps I had other options the website didn't make me aware of, but it seemed like enough of a hassle that I just dropped it.
  - Gormo 2y ago
    Ubuntu is the one forcing the use of Snaps, and it's one of the reasons lots of people are abandoning Ubuntu on both server and desktop. You're going to run into this semi-regularly with a variety of software if you continue to use Ubuntu. FWIW, Certbot is available in the standard repos for almost all other major distros.

engine_y 2y ago

Tnx. That's helpful to know.