certbot plugin to allow acme dns-01 authentication of a name managed in cPanel
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Plugin to allow acme dns-01 authentication of a name managed in cPanel. Useful for automating and creating a Let's Encrypt certificate (wildcard or not) for a service with a name managed by cPanel, but installed on a server not managed in cPanel.
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| --certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-credentials <file> | cPanel credentials INI file (required) |
| --certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-propagation-seconds <seconds> | The number of seconds to wait for DNS to propagate before asking the ACME server to verify the DNS record (Default: 30) |
pip install certbot-dns-cpanel
Download the file credentials.ini.exemple and rename it to credentials.ini. Edit it to set your cPanel url, username and password.
# The url cPanel url
# include the scheme and the port number (usually 2083 for https)
certbot_dns_cpanel:cpanel_url = https://cpanel.exemple.com:2083
# The cPanel username
certbot_dns_cpanel:cpanel_username = user
# The cPanel password
certbot_dns_cpanel:cpanel_password = hunter2
You can now run certbot using the plugin and feeding the credentials file.
For exemple, to get a wildcard certificate for *.exemple.com and exemple.com:
certbot certonly \
--authenticator certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel \
--certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-credentials /path/to/credentials.ini \
-d 'exemple.com' \
-d '*.exemple.com'
You can also specify a installer plugin with the --installer option.
certbot run \
--authenticator certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel \
--installer apache \
--certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-credentials /path/to/credentials.ini \
-d 'exemple.com' \
-d '*.exemple.com'
A docker image badjware/certbot-dns-cpanel, based on certbot/certbot is provided for your convenience:
docker run -it \
-v /path/to/credentials.ini:/tmp/credentials.ini \
badjware/certbot-dns-cpanel \
certonly \
--authenticator certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel \
--certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-credentials /tmp/credentials.ini \
-d 'exemple.com' \
-d '*.exemple.com'
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Image
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Size
54.1 MB
Last updated
almost 5 years ago
docker pull badjware/certbot-dns-cpanel