I created a SaaS app using laravel 8 with first-party package laravel sail (Docker) and tenancy for laravel
package for the SaaS.
I need to install wildcard lets encrypt SSL on the main app and all tenant apps will be on HTTPS.
I tried to install certbot image like this
certbot:
image: certbot/certbot:latest
the image installed but I do not know what to do after that.
I tried without docker using certbot instructions
it's installed and everything succeeded but the website doesn't open and all request timeout.
Update:
this is the ports section in my docker-compose.yml file
ports:
- '443:443'
I ran docker ps and all services are up and running.
I ran sudo ufw status and this is the result
TLDR: Laravel sail is not for production. Use a different docker configuration, if you need an example you can find it here: https://github.com/thomasmoors/laravel-docker
Also wildcard certificates are not achievable by using HTTP-01 challenges, you need a DNS-01 challenge, which you do by adding a txt record to your dns config.
Wildcard certificates by Let's Encrypt are only possible with a DNS-01 challenge. This however requires you to paste a TXT record to your DNS registry. So no go for wildcard unless you have an api to change your dns. It might be worth a try to look at this: https://stackexchange.github.io/dnscontrol/
However I do not know if your domain provider supports this.
For regular (non-wildcard) certificates:
By default Laravel Sail runs using the built in php artisan serve command-webserver, which has no support for ssl certificates. So you need to add a reverse proxy like nginx. Because of this I believe sail not to be production ready and also not intended. I have made an example of a non-sail docker-compose config for laravel: https://github.com/thomasmoors/laravel-docker
Certbot works by placing a file on your webserver which will be retrieved for the challenge. However it looks like your current configuration does not share a volume between your webserver and Certbot. Also you need to allow certbot to modify your nginx config.
The default location for you code is /var/www/html, so you should enable Certbot to write to that directory by adding a volume for the Certbot service as well:
upstream sentry_docker {
server 192.168.1.94:9005;
}
server {
server_name example.dev;
location / {
proxy_pass http://sentry_docker;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.dev/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.dev/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = example.dev) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
server_name example.dev;
listen 80;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
certbot:
image: certbot/certbot:latest
volumes:
- .:/var/www/html
- ./data/nginx:/etc/nginx/conf.d
There are not enough information to help you but I can suggest to check out this guide https://github.com/Daanra/laravel-lets-encrypt and double check your configuration.
If the website doesn't show up, according to the error, the problem might be related to the network (firewall) or something else (the application not running and binding itself to the port 80 for http requests and 443 for https).
I am trying to run certbot on an Amazon Linux EC2 instance to generate an ssl cert. I have turned off both nginx and apache to make port 80 available for certbot to bind to.
I am running certbot with the following command:
./certbot-auto certonly --standalone -d mydomain.com
It is producing the following error:
All the DNS record have been configured correctly as well so I'm not sure why this error is happening.
How can I make certbot run correctly?
I had to specify the correct http-01-port.
./certbot-auto certonly **--http-01-port 8080** -d domain.com -d www.domain.com
I'm building an app in Laravel that has a single codebase that will serve multiple domain names, a new domain can be added in the CMS, and all that should have to be done for that new domain to work is have it's records pointed to the server. The CMS itself will then display the appropriate pages for that domain, based on the request()->getHost(); function.
The app is being managed with Laravel Forge.
My question is regarding nginx, and LetsEncrypt: I would like all new domains added in this way to be secured via SSL, would every new domain need to be added to forge manually, or is there some way to allow a wildcard TLD in the certificate? (And if so, is that a security risk?).
Will nginx require some specific configuration to work with wildcard TLDs?
My aim is to avoid additional configuration and have it automatic, with the domain name simply being added to the backend.
Thanks!
Please follow the Steps. Hope it will work for you.
1 - First clone Letsencrypt/Certbot repo from Github
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/certbot/certbot.git
2 - Now enter new created directory and run certificate bot
cd certbot
./letsencrypt-auto certonly --manual --preferred-challenges=dns --email mymail#gmail.com --server https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory --agree-tos -d *.mywebsite.com
3 - Now Certbot will ask for a DNS record to check that if you really have rights at this domain.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Please deploy a DNS TXT record under the name
_acme-challenge.mywebsite.com with the following value:
5GFgEqWd7AQrvHteRtfT5V-XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Before continuing, verify the record is deployed.
------------------------------------------------------------------
Press Enter to Continue
4 - After adding this DNS TXT record to your domain and wait for few seconds press enter and continue.
5 - Your certificate is ready!
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/mywebsite.com/fullchain.pem
Your key file has been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/mywebsite.com/privkey.pem
Your cert will expire on 2018-08-22. To obtain a new or tweaked
version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot-auto
again. To non-interactively renew *all* of your certificates, run
"certbot-auto renew"
- If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by:
Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/donate
Donating to EFF: https://eff.org/donate-le
6 - Now we will copy our fullchain.pem and privkey.pem to our Nginx folder and add this to our Nginx server configuration. For example;
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name test.mywebsite.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/privkey.pem;
ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/fullchain.pem;
...
Hope it will helpful.
Is it possible to tell certbot not to email me every day when running on cronjob?
My cronjob is:
0 0 * * * sudo /usr/bin/certbot renew --post-hook "sudo service nginx reload"
And I get emails:
Cert not yet due for renewal
I only want to get emailed when a certificate is up for renewal, failed to renew, or has been renewed.
I don't need to be notified daily that there is nothing to renew.
According to the Certbot user guide, if you only wanted to be informed of renewal failures then you could add the --quiet option to your command:
certbot renew --quiet --post-hook "sudo service nginx reload"
If you only want to suppress this one particular message then you could modify your command to use grep to discard the message, something like:
certbot renew --post-hook "sudo service nginx reload" | grep -v "not yet due for renewal"
As far as I know certbot never sends any emails, it's just a command line utility. It's letsencrypt.org who sends certificate expiration notice. But it only sends email when the certificate is about to expire for a domain whose certificate was procured using your email (by --email flag of certbot).
I assume there is some other custom service or script which is sending this email.
The full error message I'm getting is:
Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/somedomain.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Problem binding to port 443: Could not bind to IPv4 or IPv6.. Skipping.
This is running on an AWS ubuntu 14.04 instance. All ports are open outgoing and 443 is open incoming.
You just need to stop all running servers like Apache, nginx or OpenShift before doing this.
Stop Nginx
sudo systemctl stop nginx
Stop Apache2
sudo systemctl stop apache2
you probably run the script with (preconfigurated) --standalone when your server is already running at port 443.
You can stop server before renew and start them after.
man says:
--apache Use the Apache plugin for authentication & installation
--standalone Run a standalone webserver for authentication
--nginx Use the Nginx plugin for authentication & installation
--webroot Place files in a server's webroot folder for authentication
--manual Obtain certificates interactively, or using shell script hooks
If I run renew with --apache I can't get any error.
As hinted in the other answers, you need to pass the option for your running webserver, for example:
Without webserver param:
sudo certbot renew
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:tls-sni-01 challenge for example.com
Cleaning up challenges
Attempting to renew cert (example.com) from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/example.com.conf produced an unexpected
error:
Problem binding to port 443: Could not bind to IPv4 or IPv6..
Skipping.
Then, again with the webserver param (success):
sudo certbot renew --nginx
Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges: tls-sni-01 challenge for example.com
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
new certificate deployed with reload of nginx server; fullchain is
/etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem
Congratulations, all renewals succeeded. The following certs have been
renewed: /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem (success)
[This is specifically for ubuntu]
Login as root user to your server
Stop your server using the following command (for nginx)
service nginx stop
Then renew your certificate
certbot renew
Start your server
service nginx start
[TIP] To check the expiry date of your renewed certificate, enter the command below
ssl-cert-check -c [Path_to_your_certificate]/fullchain.pem
For example
ssl-cert-check -c /etc/letsencrypt/live/[your_domain_name]/fullchain.pem
Or
ssl-cert-check -c /etc/letsencrypt/live/[your_domain_name]/cert.pem
If you don't have ssl-cert-check already installed in your server, install it using
apt install ssl-cert-check
Note: The certificate can be renewed only if it is not expired. If it is expired, you have to create new one.
For NodeJS/PM2 users
I was using PM2 for my NodeJS service and when trying to renew the certificate I also got the "Problem binding to port 80: Could not bind to IPv4 or IPv6." error message.
As mentioned in above answers for Apache/Ngnix, Stopping my service and then trying to renew solved the problem.
pm2 stop all
sudo certbot renew
pm2 start all
First you need to install NGiNX lets encrypt plugin (if you work with NGiNX):
sudo apt install python-certbot-nginx
Then you can safely run:
sudo certbot renew --nginx
and it will work.
Note: certbot should already be installed.
For ngnix
sudo certbot renew --nginx
This happened because you used --standalone. The purpose of that option is to launch a temporary webserver because you don't have one running.
Next time use the --webroot method, and you'll be able to use your already running nginx server.
Borrowing from #JKLIR Simply run
/etc/letsencrypt/letsencrypt-auto renew --apache >> /var/log/letsencrypt/renew.log
to renew the ssl certificate
If you're trying to perform the certbot command as a regular user, you may not have access to bind to port 80 and other lower ports. If this is the case, you can grant python access to bind via:
First, see if you can find python 3+ (adjust as needed)
echo "$(readlink -f "$(which python3)")"
Allow python to open port 80 as a regular user (adjust as needed)
sudo setcap CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE=+eip "$(readlink -f "$(which python3)")"
Re-run the failing certbot command.
Important: On Ubuntu 18.04, Python is called python3. It may be called a number of different things depending on the OS and how you obtained certbot. This command WILL VARY between OSs.
Warning: These lower ports are restricted for good reason. There are security considerations with the setcap command. You may read more about them here: https://superuser.com/a/892391
I use Nginx and needed to stop the server before I can proceed. Then I run the command:
$ sudo ./certbot-auto certonly --standalone -d chaklader.ddns.net
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator standalone, Installer None
Obtaining a new certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for chaklader.ddns.net
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
Subscribe to the EFF mailing list (email: xxx.chakfffder#gmail.com).
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/cdddddder.ddns.net/fullchain.pem
Your key file has been saved at:
/etc/letsencrypt/live/chaklader.ddns.net/privkey.pem
Your cert will expire on 2045-01-10. To obtain a new or tweaked
version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot-auto
again. To non-interactively renew *all* of your certificates, run
"certbot-auto renew"
- If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by:
Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/donate
Donating to EFF: https://eff.org/donate-le
I had a similar issue when I was running two websites (hosts) on a single instance. I stopped Nginx and then ran sudo certbot certonly --standalone --preferred-challenges http -d domain.com -d www.domain.com. After restarting Nginx everything started to work fine.