Easy Auto Renewal with Letsencrypt

After reading a lot of different docs for letsencrypt I couldn’t find an easy way of auto renewing my domains simply. So after I’ve compiled what I’ve found so far. Add the following to your nginx conf block block: location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ { alias /var/www/mikebell.io/.well-known/acme-challenge; try_files $uri =404; } Then add the following to crontab as root: 0 0 1 * * letsencrypt certonly --webroot -w /var/www/mikebell.io/ -d mikebell.io --renew-by-default The --renew-by-default is key here since it means that it runs without being interactive....

December 20, 2015 · 1 min · Mike Bell