Another How to config certbot with Cloudflare

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Hi, I'm following the doc and I can't make cloudflare go to the proper https route. First than anything, in that documentation where it says Credentials, what am I supposed to do? You left everything in blank to the imagination?

The path to this file can be provided interactively or using the --dns-cloudflare-credentials command-line argument.

Ok.. so what do I do? When I type --dns-cloudflare-credentials on ~ dir, it doesn't do anything..

I went and created the full firectory .secrets, etc and applied the 600 permission, now where do I put this:

certbot certonly \
  --dns-cloudflare \
  --dns-cloudflare-credentials ~/.secrets/certbot/cloudflare.ini \
  -d example.com \
  -d www.example.com

Am I supposed to put it in the nginx configuration of the site? Where?

Thank you, it just frustrating everytime I try to do something and I have to read documentations that are apparently made for who ever created it and not for the public.

EDIT: Never mind, it magically works not, the only thing different was the api on the ini and the permissions ... I haven't touch anything on the conf of the nginx... does it work? yes, is it correct? no idea... congrats to the inept that did that doc..

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Hi @Arturo_x

if you use the certonly - option, then you get only the certificate, no local installation. If you use --dns-cloudflare as authenticator, you don't need a local webserver. So it's irrelevant to your nginx-configuration.

https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#certbot-commands

If you are running a local nginx, why don't you use that? If you don't want a wildcard certificate, you may use http-01 - validation instead of dns-01 - validation.

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