I’ve noticed a lot of people who use Nginx with Certbot are still using the --webroot method, even if they’re new to Certbot. I suspect there are a lot of outdated tutorials out there that recommend webroot. If you’re looking for a project, it would be useful to try and find some of these tutorials …

Nginx and webroot - find outdated tutorials?

jsha Closed November 15, 2017, 12:40am 4

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