Command Line for generating a Wildcard SSL Certificate with Let's Encrypt:
certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges=dns --email
Replace example.com with your Domainname.
The command options above are explained below:
- certonly: Obtain or renew a certificate, but do not install
- –manual: Obtain certificates interactively
- –preferred-challenges=dns: Use dns to authenticate domain ownership
- –server: Specify the endpoint to use to generate
- –agree-tos: Agree to the ACME server’s subscriber terms
- -d: Domain name to provide certificates for
After executing the command above, Let’s Encrypt will provide a text string to add a text record to your DNS entry…
Example:
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Plugins selected: Authenticator manual, Installer None ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you be willing to share your email address with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a founding partner of the Let's Encrypt project and the non-profit organization that develops Certbot? We'd like to send you email about EFF and our work to encrypt the web, protect its users and defend digital rights. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Y)es/(N)o: y Obtaining a new certificate Performing the following challenges: dns-01 challenge for example.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The IP of this machine will be publicly logged as having requested this certificate. If you're running certbot in manual mode on a machine that is not your server, please ensure you're okay with that. Are you OK with your IP being logged? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Y)es/(N)o: y ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please deploy a DNS TXT record under the name _acme-challenge.example.com with the following value: x4MrZ6y-JqFJQRmq_lGi9ReRQHPa1aTC9J2O7wDKzq8 Before continuing, verify the record is deployed.
Go to your DNS provider portal and add a text record for the string above and save…
