Hi All Thought I would share some of the adventures in getting certbot to work on windows. Quick Summary - I am planning to use this article for Phase 1 of the project and use posts to talk about certain topics Current Status Tested OSs: Windows 8, Windows 10, Server 2008, Server 2012R2 certonl…

Why Bother Having followed the community for some time one of the things I have noticed is the windows clients while being great are not as advanced as their linux counterparts. Certbot is a fantastic client and having it running on windows seems like a good idea. Some of the pros: A) Same synta…

Pre-Reqs and Environment I have made a small mistake here as I used Python 3.6 initially. I ended up doing the following: Installed Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 create two virtual environments. I will run through the python 3.6 install build I prefer to install python in Python36 directory under t…

Installing Certbot: run the command below and you should get something like the below pip install certbot [image] run the command below to confirm the right packages have been installed pip freeze [image]

after installing certbot if you run certbot you should get an error like the one below [image] A brief explanation of the error: The os.geteuid() method returns the current user ID in linux systems. This is a linux only method (review documentation here os — Miscellaneous operating system interfa…

e.message() fix for Python 3.6 When running certbot with Python 3.6 you get an error saying that message attribute does not exist While this is not a critical error it is one worth fixing so you can get useful error messages from certbot [image] in main.py replace e.mesage with e [image] sens…

Windows Server 2012 R2: Additional Steps If you are using Windows Server 2012 R2 you need to download the trusted root certificate from Digicert. This is because they are not installed by deafult on Windows Server 2012R2. If these certs are not installed then you will get errors when PIP tries to…

Run As Administrator to Avoid Symlinks Issues If you run into symlink related issues then run PowerShell as administrator. This will allow you to create the needed symlinks. [image] Symlinks in use: [image]

@cpu @bmw @jsha what would be the next steps to getting windows registered as a supported OS for certbot (like ubuntu etc) what are the hurdles?

Wow. Nice work @ahaw021 . This is great. To official support Windows, we’d need some auditing/testing of the code done to find the UNIX specific code that causes issues like geteuid. We’d then need PR(s) fixing things in a way that works correctly on both Windows and UNIX. Ideally, we’d also want so…

Running Certbot on Windows - Phase 1

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ahaw021 April 9, 2017, 10:48am 16

Small Update:

Certbot 0.13.0 has os.geteuid() in the log.py file so this needs to be updated as well

Certbot 0.14.0 Release

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