Requesting a certificate for ip address

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Hello there.

I tried to generate an SSL Certificate for Django and get HTTPS with my ip address http://192.168.1.192:8000
but i have this error :

An unexpected error occurred:
Error creating new order :: Cannot issue for "192.168.1.192": The ACME server can not issue a certificate for an IP address
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That's because Let's Encrypt only issues certs for domain names, and that's unlikely to change in the future. And no certificate authority will issue certs for a private IP address.

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As @danb35 said Let’s Encrypt offers Domain Validation (DV) certificates.

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And currently there's no CA providing certs for IP addresses using the ACME protocol. I do know however that ZeroSSL offers certs for IP addresses using their web interface and REST API.

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As stated by others above:

  1. LetsEncrypt does not offer Certificates for IP addresses
  2. No CA can issue a Certificate for a PRIVATE IP Address

Also adding:

  1. You can not specify a port in Certificates. It will be stripped by the Client or ACME Server.
  2. The workaround for what you're trying to accomplish is to generate a certificate for a domain like dev.example.com. This is often easiest to do with a DNS-01 challenge, but you can use the HTTP-01 challenge on a public website and import that certificate OR route the public traffic to your computer. Then you can update either the public OR local DNS to resolve dev.example.com onto 192.168.1.192.
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ok @danb35, thanks u

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