LetsencryptCert 10.1.0

UwebServerCert

LetsEncrypt bot to automatically create an LetsEncrypt certificate for a Web Server

Installation

dotnet tool install LetsencryptCert --global

Executing the tool for the first time

Copy cert.json to current directory with following content:

{
    "account": "<account@domain.de>",
    "domains": [
        "<domain 1>", "<domain 2>", "<domain 3>"
    ],
    "data": {
        "countryName": "<my country>",
        "state": "<my state",
        "locality": "<my locality>",
        "organization": "<my organization>",
        "organizationUnit": "<my organization unit>",
        "commonName": "<my common name, main domain>"
    }
}

LetsencryptCert -create

This lets LetsencryptCert create an account.

Create a file letsencrypt-cert in /etc (Linux) or c:\program data\letsencrypt-cert (Windows). This text file should contain a password for the to be created pfx certificate.

Obtaining certificate (test mode)

After executing the tool for the first time and having created an account, you can obtain a certificate from LetsEncrypt by running the tool:

LetsencryptCert

Your webserver has to serve the token to LetsEncrypt.

Obtaining certificate

To get a secure certificate, you have to set the command line argument -prod:

LetsencryptCert -create -prod
LetsencryptCert -prod

Executing tool every day (Linux)

crontab -e

Append

PATH=$PATH:/home/pi/.dotnet/tools
0 4 * * * LetsencryptCert > /home/pi/logs/letsencrypt.log 2>&1

This executes LetsEncrypt update every day at 4 AM . Last log is saved in /home/pi/logs/LetsencryptCert.log