Hi All,
The download link :
https://github.com/certbot/certbot/releases/latest/download/certbot-beta-installer-win_amd64_signed.exe
Reference by : Certbot Instructions | Certbot
no longer links to a valid download. I appears to be a failry common issue looking at the forum.
Are the compiled windows releases going to be reinstated at some point ?
I am unable to download any v3.x release (but the v2.9.0 version can still be found unofficially)
Thanks
Alex
This is a known issue. An issue on the Certbot website Github repo was opened, but also closed by the person that opened that issue. (Certbot install link broken on certbot.eff.org/instructions · Issue #812 · certbot/website · GitHub) But I don't think it should have been closed, because the website indeed is still incorrect.
I don't think the Certbot team has this planned.
I've opened a new issue so the Certbot team can fix this: Remove link to Windows installer in instruction generator · Issue #828 · certbot/website · GitHub
You may also want to see this, if you haven't yet, about the certbot team no longer supporting Windows:
It was always kind of awkward, and only worked well when running other traditionally-linuxy-stuff like Apache on Windows as well. You're usually much better off with any of the Windows ACME clients, which are more designed for integrating with the Windows ecosystem.
Thank you both very much - I only discovered this today and I'll move to win-acme or similar.
I think the most popular are Certify the Web (for the GUI fan), win-acme (for the command line fan), and Posh-ACME (for the Powershell fan). They're all fine choices to my understanding, though I don't have any personal experience with them.
(And yeah, EFF/Certbot not updating their site to make things clear to Windows users isn't helping the word get out.)
You would do well to look at simple-acme if you are considering win-acme. It is a fork of win-acme by the principal maintainer of that. Read about the reasons here:
I am not suggesting this "over" Certify the Web or Posh-ACME. Just if you were looking at win-acme you might be better served by simple-acme
Thanks very much Mike, just had a read and looks to be exactly what I'm after.
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