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LetsEncrypt - Serve html pages from blackboard server

Question asked by kevin.ghantous on Dec 11, 2017
Latest reply on Jan 9, 2018 by kevin.ghantous
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We are a self-hosted environment. We are moving to use Letsencrypt for our Blackboard SSL certificate.We want to automate the process by generating the ssl validation via serving a text document from the server. To do so, we need to be able to host a dynamic document (text file) in the /webroot/.well-known/acme-challenge/ path (webroot is the root of the website).  Can a path/file be stored on the Blackboard server to serve from the corresponding url? (ex url: https://bb.myschools.org/.well-known/acme-challenge/)

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moneil Jan 9, 2018 2:04 PM
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Kevin,

I do not know of an unauthenticated learn server path that could be used for this purpose.

 

That noted, since you know when you need to renew you could cron a certbot renew --standalone process to run every 80 days, use renewal-hooks pre, deploy, and post, to stop, get cert and deploy, start Learn services. IIRC the stop/deploy/start only cycles if the cert needs renewed.

 

That way you only have to bounce the server when you get the initial cert and within the 60-90 day renewal window.

 

Hope that helps.

 

-m

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