Hi all

Hugh here from Australia, I joined the list last week.

On the weekend I successfully created and installed two LetsEncrypt certs on nginx - I've never used nginx before, so that shows you how relatively easy it is. There were a couple of gotchas using sudo, but you can create certs on nginx fairly easily using the LE beta system, it just doesn't have an auto installer like Apache.


Hugh Rundle
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-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon
Sent: Saturday, 5 December 2015 5:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's Encrypt public beta

Nginx support is in progress and there is an “experimental” nginx tool available for Ubuntu 12.04+/ Debian 7+. Presumably, this is not ready for production.

I was hoping that this would be further along by now, and we recently bought a three year wildcard cert subscription ($120), which is what we are recommending to out library clients at this time. Of course the cost of the cert is not really the issue. The problem that Let’s Encrypt will solve is the maintenance of the certs.

Thanks,

Cary

> On Dec 4, 2015, at 9:06 AM, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> Like Cary said, it'll take some dedication to expand this to other 
> open web technologies. I'd love to see nginx support.
> 
> 
> –Tod
> 
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Cary Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> Great news if you are using Apache on Ubuntu 12.04+ or Debian 7+.
>> Everything else will wait for someone to step up and build it.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Cary
>> 
>>> On Dec 3, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html <
>> https://letsencrypt.org/2015/12/03/entering-public-beta.html>
>>> 
>>> Remember, LE is designed for automation, so your big value-add will 
>>> be
>> figuring out how to automate cert renewal on your platform.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Eric Hellman
>>> President, Free Ebook Foundation
>>> Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/ 
>>> https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
>>> twitter: @gluejar
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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