Tag: Letsencrypt

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Certbot and nginx - renewal and setup without service downtime

Certbot and nginx - renewal and setup without service downtime

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When installing/renewing let’s encrypt on a web server with nginx, we have to decide whether to do it with a temporary server, which means we must temporarily stop the web service, or indicate what the DocumentRoot of the web server is for the domain.

The latter implies that the website or service has a “public” DocumentRoot, and that’s not always easy when we’re using, for example, a Python, Java, or Go application and nginx as a proxy.