Certbot : Windows Installer link is broken / no 'latest' release

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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

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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

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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.

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Thank you both very much - I only discovered this today and I'll move to win-acme or similar.

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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.)

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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

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Thanks very much Mike, just had a read and looks to be exactly what I'm after.