I created a let’s encrypt certificate for my domain and installed in my nginx reverse proxy. Now, I want to create a certificate for my backend server that has the same domain as the reverse proxy using let’s encrypt. How can I create this certificate for the backend server?

No, you would be creating two different certificates, backed by different private keys and different Let’s Encrypt accounts. The Certbot running on your reverse proxy would not know about the Certbot running on your backend, and they wouldn’t share any information. To grossly simplify, we are just…

Using let's encrypt in the backend server

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stevenzhu December 5, 2019, 11:20pm 2

You can try to either pass the certificate to the backend server (from proxy) or to use DNS validation and obtain certificate with TXT records

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Using let's encrypt in the backend server

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