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letsencrypt not generating files

Fred

24 November 2016, 17:52

Hi Hugo,

I am trying to generate an ssl certificate for my domain and here is the outcome of

php ./letsencrypt request mydomain.co.uk

Authorizing mydomain.co.uk.
 - Retrieving HTTP authentication challenge.
 - Retrieving authorization key.
Authorizing www.mydomain.co.uk.
 - Retrieving HTTP authentication challenge.
 - Retrieving authorization key.
Generating RSA key.
Generating CSR.
Retrieving certificate.

From what I can it all good but I cannot find the CSR or RSA key anywhere...

Could you please help?

Thank you
Fred

Hugo Leisink

24 November 2016, 19:21

The answer can be found in the README file, the one but last paragraph.

Fred

26 November 2016, 00:16

Certificates will be written to a file in the directory of this script. If you
run the script as user root, the certificate will be written to the directory
configured via the WEBSERVER_CERT_DIR setting.

Sorry but what does is 'WEBSERVER_CERT_DIR'?

I did ran the following and got nothing back

find /usr/local/www/mydomain.co.uk -name '*.csr'
find /usr/local/www/mydomain.co.uk -name '*.key'
find /usr/local/etc/hiawatha/letsencrypt -name '*.csr'
find /usr/local/etc/hiawatha/letsencrypt -name '*.key'

Hugo Leisink

26 November 2016, 16:29

That's an error in the README. WEBSERVER_CERT_DIR should have been HIAWATHA_CERT_DIR. It's defined in letsencrypt.conf. Point it to where you want to store your certificates. I set it to /etc/hiawatha/tls.

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