Webroot - can i point it to my unique webroot

[robertkwild]

hi all,

i have aspera servers and there webroot is in a unique location ie

/opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

ssl_certificate /path/to/cert;
ssl_certificate_key /path/to/key;

so when i run certbot, can i do this

certbot certonly --webroot -d domain.com /opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

will this work

thanks,
rob

[9peppe]

A webroot is a directory in which your website is. It's usually /var/www/html and matches the root directive in nginx config.

But I think Certbot has a setting to tell it where the nginx config is. It's not --webroot though.

[Osiris]

As @9peppe already said, your concept of "webroot" is incorrect. You probably mean the nginx server root directory. You can set it by using the --nginx-server-root option.

Please also see the output of:

certbot --help nginx

to get the help output for the nginx plugin.

[rg305]

And the order is incorrect; You wrote --webroot -d domain.com and then the supposed webroot path.
The correct order is:
--webroot -w "path" and then the domain(s).

So, to answer your question:

@robertkwild

will this work

I'd say "no" (for several reasons)

[9peppe]

@rg305

The correct order is:
--webroot -w "path" and then the domain(s).

... and if you want to know why is that, that's because you can have multiple webroots in the same command, each applies to the domains that follow:

certbot --webroot -w /var/www/site1 -d site1.example.com -w /var/www/site2 -d site2.example.com

etc etc.

Do that if you want a single certificate for two sites that do not share a webroot.

[robertkwild]

makes sense, thank you guys