<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I have converted a router that I found by a skip into a Tailscale subnet router, though, partly because it was a router with small install space, it was not a straight forward task.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Brian<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="ydp36093e38yahoo_quoted_8779616064" class="ydp36093e38yahoo_quoted">
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On Monday, 7 November 2022 at 11:14:53 CET, Bernard Czenkusz via Bradford <bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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<div><div dir="ltr">Regarding certbot:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As part of my webparametrics virtual server (Ubuntu), I installed NGINX, <br clear="none">and at the time I made the following notes.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">You can specify webserver and os at <a shape="rect" href="https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt </a><br clear="none">and it gives the appropriate instructions. Following these installed <br clear="none">certbot, created the certificates, the nginx conf file, and the cron job <br clear="none">for auto-renewal.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">After this I further edited the nginx config file to proxy to internal <br clear="none">services - I've had no trouble with certificates, and renewals have been <br clear="none">going on without any input from me.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-------------- As root:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">snap install core; snap refresh core<br clear="none"><br clear="none">apt-get remove certbot<br clear="none"><br clear="none">snap install –classic certbot<br clear="none"><br clear="none">ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot<br clear="none"><br clear="none">certbot –nginx -d webparametrics.co.uk -d www.webparametrics.co.uk -d <br clear="none">webparametrics.com -d www.webparametrics.com<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Try connecting with browser, should get https ok to the domains.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Test automatic renewal<br clear="none"><br clear="none">certbot renew –dry-run<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Also to see the certbot auto renewal timer, look at<br clear="none"><br clear="none">systemctl list-timers<br clear="none"><br clear="none">--------------<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Cheers - Bernard<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="ydp36093e38yqt6277347476" id="ydp36093e38yqtfd97203"><br clear="none">On 06/11/2022 21:26, John Robert Hudson via Bradford wrote:<br clear="none">> Dear all<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> It’s that time of the month again. Has anyone anything to share this month?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I would be interested in hearing from anyone who uses or has used certbot.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I gave BCB a list of our meeting dates; so things should be open for us on<br clear="none">> Tuesday.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> John<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none"><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none">Bradford mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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