Purpose

This AlternC plugin get certificates with Letsencrypt service. It generates:

• a panel certificate (as apache.pem)
• any certificate to each domains hosted

When a domain is added, the plugin try to get a new certificate. We check that the DNS is answering with our PUBLIC_IP before asking Letsencrypt

Requirements

You'll need :

• a Debian server (from Jessie)
• AlternC >= 3.5
• The acme package
• with Jessie : from backports
• with Stretch : from stable or from backports for wildcards

Installation

Stable package

You can download last package from :

• github : release page
• on AlternC official repository at https://debian.alternc.org/

On Wheezy

No more supported (last compatible version is 0.0.14)

On Jessie or Stretch

Go to https://github.com/AlternC/alternc-acme/releases and download last *.deb release.

apt-get update
apt-get install -t jessie-backports certbot
dpkg -i alternc-acme*.deb
alternc.install

Nightly package

We no more propose nightly package. You must package it yourself

Configuration and Activation

Once alternc-certificate-provider-letsencrypt is installed, you must:

• run alternc.install

You can run also /usr/lib/alternc/generate_acme.php to get faster certificate to all domains hosted.

Packaging from source

To generate package we use either debuild / dpkg-buildpackage

apt-get build-essential
git clone https://github.com/AlternC/alternc-acme
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b

ROADMAP

• Auto renew panel certificat (0.0.2)
• Auto detect new domain add from panel (0.0.3)
• Don't stop apache to get certificate (0.0.4)
• Auto renew all domains (0.0.5)
• Provide a stretch compatibility (0.0.6)
• Correct update cron (0.0.11)
• Prevent https redirection before certificate generation (0.0.12)
• More verbose on alternc.install process as certificates generation can took some times (0.0.14)
• Stop old debian support
• Renaming project to follow AlternC recommandation (since 3.5.x)
• Change packaging system, move to debuild solution (0.0.15)
• Change packaging system, move to debuild solution (0.0.16)
• Rename project to alternc-acme (0.0.17)
• Fix 0.0.17 , support forward mode, rename file to acme (0.0.18)
• push into official AlternC repository