Certbot and Local Web Server

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My domain is: Local (gamemodders.io locally ran for now)

I ran this command:

It produced this output:

My web server is (include version): Apache (Latest Debian 12 version).

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Debian 12

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: Myself

I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don't know): Yes

I'm using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): No but good idea.

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you're using Certbot):

Is it possible to run Certbot locally via my web server? I'm trying to build a site and want to simulate the SSL part as well for it.

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You can run Certbot (or any ACME Client) anywhere but you need to satisfy an ACME Challenge that comes from the Let's Encrypt ACME Server. See: Challenge Types - Let's Encrypt

Usually that means running the Client on the same machine as the HTTPS (or TLS) service.

Let's Encrypt is a public Certificate Authority. If you want a public certificate you need to prove control over that domain name in the public space.

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Got it, will keep this in mind when I go live. Testing/Dev can use openssl for now until I'm ready to move to production.

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