Distributed site encryption

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Hi, I don’t know how to get a certificate for my entire environment. Here’s a diagram:

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I have successfully installed LE certs on the redirect host (which has a few local sites) and the primary host for the domain sailtracker.net. However, this domain also has a second server running RoR (which can run independent of the wordpress site) and performs specific functions which are best on a separate host. I don’t know how to get a cert issued for this server as it’s just a path on the redirect site and doesn’t respond directly to a domain name.

How can I configure SSL on this application server?

My domain is: sailtracker.net

I ran this command: certbot-auto certonly

It produced this output: Challenge failed for domain sailtracker.net

My web server is (include version): Ruby on Rails

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 14

My hosting provider, if applicable, is: N/A

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

The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): certbot 0.35.1

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Hi @luminarycrush

isn't it possible to distribute the existing certificate?

It's your internal network, so you can copy the certificate files to the second server.

Or use dns-01 validation to create a certificate with the same domain name. But a copy should be easier.

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I didn’t know that was allowed - I thought the cert had to be unique for the host. I’ll try that…

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Worked, no issue. That was easy. Thanks!

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The certificate knows nothing about your hosts. Only the domain name is relevant.

Wonderful :+1:

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