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Re:Let's Encrypt and Nginx – State of the art secure web dep... by ran290 on Thursday March 31, 2016 @07:24PM (#11401390)
I'm curious: why doesn't webroot work for your setup?
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Re:Let's Encrypt and Nginx – State of the art secure web dep... by ivan_ah on Thursday March 31, 2016 @10:14PM (#11402095)
A dynamic script is handling all requests, so there is no "webroot" directory where you can put stuff for them to appear under /
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Re:Let's Encrypt and Nginx – State of the art secure web dep... by matt4077 on Friday April 01, 2016 @01:14AM (#11402808)
You could quite easily add a location /.well-known rule to the server, right?
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Re:Let's Encrypt and Nginx – State of the art secure web dep... by ivan_ah on Friday April 01, 2016 @01:15PM (#11406589)
Oh yeah, I didn't know about this option. A static dir for /.well-known is a much more elegant solution than shutting down nginx... Thx for the pointer.
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