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		LtWorf 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates I did manage to set it up and it has been working ok but it has been a PITA. Also for some reason they contact my server over HTTP, so I must open port 80 just to do the renovation.

patmorgan23 13 days ago [–]

That would be because you set up the HTTP-01 challenge as your domain verification method.

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/challenge-types/

LtWorf 13 days ago | [–]

Since there is no equivalent HTTPS way of doing the same thing?

aidenn0 12 days ago | | [–]

You can use DNS-01 or TLS-ALPN-01 if you don't want to (or can't) open up port 80.

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