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Let’s Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt is an automated certificate authority providing free of charge, domain-validated TLS certificates that are obtained using the ACME protocol.

Let’s Encrypt clients

Jessie (Debian 8.x) Howto

Note: Jessie has reached end of LTS support as of June 30th, 2020. If at all possible, upgrade to a newer Debian release.

Stretch (Debian 9.x) / Buster (Debian 10.x) / Testing / Unstable Howto

You can install certbot from the main repository. You can also install some useful plugins to make the getting certificates for nginx or apache easier.

In order to make a certificate for apache you can use the following command:

sudo certbot --apache -d <domain> --post-hook "/usr/sbin/service apache2 restart"

In order to make a certificate for nginx you can use the following command:

sudo certbot --nginx -d <domain> --post-hook "/usr/sbin/service nginx restart"

upstream specific information

* Homepage

* Documentation

* Community support


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