Hi! I need some help on the installation of Certbot. A little time ago in the page were instructions about how to install Certbot without using snap but now that instructions are not there available. I appreciate any help, thanks! Giampaolo My OS: Ubuntu 18 Server: Nginx

Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community :slightly_smiling_face: If you're suffering from the deprecation of certbot-auto and looking for other means of installing certbot, please follow this link: [image] Get Certbot — Certbot 1.11.0.dev0 documentation Automatically enable HTTPS on your…

That documentation page proooobably needs some updating, as it doesn't mention the deprecation of certbot-auto at all.. Personally, I would say the certbot team shouldn't unroll any major event before every aspect of the prerequisite list is taken care of, including all and every documentation..

You're right. bmw mentioned this will change soon. [image] Certbot-auto no longer works on Debian based systems If you don't want to install Certbot through snaps, other installation methods are documented at https://certbot.eff.org/docs/install.html . (certbot-auto is still documented there but…

[image] griffin: bmw mentioned this will change soon Yeah, no offence, I know it's a small team and they are doing their best, but "it will change soon" just isn't good enough IMHO. And asking help from the Community also goes only so far.. If PRs are lingering and lingering until sint-juttem…

We're of like mind my friend. Function before fashion is fine, but documentation is not a fashion statement and shouldn't take a backseat to development. As a testament to this, I was just awarded two Popular Link badges in 24 hours. Both popular links are for posts in the same topic. Want to gues…

You question might already have been answered, but if not, using the standard sudo apt-get install certbot -y Will install certbot, and sudo certbot certonly—nginx Will do it for you. (I’ve only tested this on Debian, but it should be basically identical, since they both use apt)

[image] Litbelb: sudo certbot certonly --nginx Good thought, but that won't install the certificate. Probably better to use: sudo certbot run --nginx --keep I used run so that the nginx installer would install the certificate and added --keep to prevent acquisition of duplicate certificate…

[image] griffin: that won't install the certificate. That usually works for me :thinking:

You might have a --deploy-hook in place with something like nginx -s reload (which is perfectly fine). :slightly_smiling_face:

As long as the web server gets restarted within 30 days, it will continue to work. So anything like a weekly web server reload cron would be why this "works" (unintentionally).

Installation without snap?

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griffin December 5, 2020, 11:15am 4

You're right. bmw mentioned this will change soon.

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Installation without snap?

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