I’m trying to set up a new server for my domain. This time I’m documenting the server setup by using Ansible to do it automatically. I got a lot of it done. What remains is letsencrypt. I found some playbook for setting up letsencrypt and I’m using that. It eventually comes down to the following fa…

[image] andrew_defaria: Is it so that I cannot use letsencrypt on the localhost unless I have a valid domain that resolves in DNS to the public IP address of the server I’m setting up?!? There are several Let's Encrypt clients that have a "remote webroot" concept where you can ask the client …

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Where are these remote webroot clients? I mean I have LetsEncrypt set up on my current server and I could copy the files over I guess (/opt/letsencrypt and /etc/letsencrypt) but would that work? Maybe only after I moved the domain name from its current server to the new server. As for redirecting /…

[image] andrew_defaria: Where are these remote webroot clients? I mean I have LetsEncrypt set up on my current server and I could copy the files over I guess (/opt/letsencrypt and /etc/letsencrypt) but would that work? Maybe only after I moved the domain name from its current server to the new s…

Setting up Dynamic DNS seems like overkill and wouldn’t work anyway AFAICT because there can’t be one defaria.com with two IP addresses. IOW I do have a dependency in that I need the old server to remain up until the new server is ready to take over. As such it seems to make sense to leave the letse…

[image] andrew_defaria: Setting up Dynamic DNS seems like overkill and wouldn’t work anyway AFAICT because there can’t be one defaria.com with two IP addresses. The dynamic DNS name doesn't have to be the same as the name that the certificate will be issued for, if there is an HTTP redirect i…

Thanks for the explanation but honestly this is just my little website so outages aren’t really a problem. IOW I can run unencrypted with no problems for a while until I get letsencrypt setup properly. If that’s a “create new OpenStack server, run Ansible playbook to set up new instance, do DNS swap…

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