Greetings, I have been directed by my organization to investigate the possibility of moving to Let's Encrypt for our public-facing web services. This organization has many public facing web servers under the same domain. I have been directed to investigate whether we can obtain a certificate from…

set up a server to run the acme client and submit requests to Let's Encrypt for every subdomain that needs a cert ( s1.example.org , s2.example.org , etc etc) This does not need to be on a server. This can just be your work machine, or another work machine. I do this from my laptop all the time. …

Question about subdomain certificates

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Osiris April 18, 2025, 6:16pm 4

You cannot use a Let's Encrypt end-entity certificate to issue new certificates.

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