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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Any recommended "quick start" guides for LetsEncrypt? I get hung up trying to actually understand the process but I should just nut up and get it done.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Setting up a reverse proxy with nginx proxy manager is pretty simple and comes with letsencrypt support.

For letsencrypt to work, a software needs to write a confirmation code to a special path in your domain. When letsencrypt verifies that you can write to this path (and therefore control the domain), you get the certificate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Is this only for public facing services then? I have little desire to expose my services except through tailscale or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Just to add to the other comments, you probably want to use a wildcard cert so you don't need to individually certify each subdomain (or expose them at all).

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