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Re:Let's Encrypt: How It Works by haroldp on Friday November 21, 2014 @01:15PM (#8642478)
That's the idea. It assumes you are using an OS with a package manager, and letting it manage your software and (to some extent) config files.
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Re:Let's Encrypt: How It Works by st3fan on Friday November 21, 2014 @01:49PM (#8642629)
And if you don't, or if you don't want to, it is easy to configure Apache or any web server manually.

All you really need are three things:

* the letsencrypt command line tool that will do the API dance to request the certificate

* a file in your web site root with a ownership verification token or a DNS record with said token

* a configuration file snippet for your server

I'm sure all of this will be documented very well.

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Re:Let's Encrypt: How It Works by grecy on Friday November 21, 2014 @02:32PM (#8642898)
Nice, thanks. (I'm running on Ubuntu, so should be good)
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