certbot-dns-simply

Simply.com DNS Authenticator plugin for Certbot.

Installation

pip install certbot-dns-simply

Usage

To start using DNS authentication for the Simply.com DNS API, pass the following arguments on certbot's command line:

Option	Description
--authenticator dns-simply	select the authenticator plugin (Required)
--dns-simply-credentials	Simply.com DNS API credentials INI file. (Required)

Credentials

Username is the Simply.com account-number (Sxxxxxx) and the password is the API-KEY for the specific account. The API-Key assigned to your Simply.com account can be found in your Simply.com Controlpanel. Please make sure to use the absolute path - some users experienced problems with relative paths.

An example credentials.ini file:

dns_simply_account_name = Sxxxxxx
dns_simply_api_key = DSHJdsjh2812872sahj

Examples

To acquire a certificate for example.com

certbot certonly \
 --authenticator dns-simply \
 --dns-simply-credentials /path/to/my/credentials.ini \
 -d example.com

To acquire a certificate for *.example.com

   certbot certonly \
     --authenticator dns-simply \
     --dns-simply-credentials /path/to/my/credentials.ini \
     -d '*.example.com'