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Using the deploy API
Before you can deploy your cert, you must issue the cert first.
Here are the scripts to deploy the certs/key to the server/services:
- Deploy the certs to your cpanel host
- Deploy ssl cert on kong proxy engine based on API
- Deploy the cert to remote server through SSH access
- Deploy the cert to local vsftpd server
- Deploy the cert to local exim4 server
- Deploy the cert to OSX Keychain
- Deploy to cpanel host using UAPI
- Deploy the cert to your FRITZ!Box router
- Deploy the cert to strongSwan
Deploy the certs to your cpanel host
If you want to deploy using cpanel UAPI see [Deploy to cpanel host using UAPI].
(cpanel deploy hook is not finished yet, this is just an example.)
Then you can deploy:
export DEPLOY_CPANEL_USER=myusername
export DEPLOY_CPANEL_PASSWORD=PASSWORD
acme.sh --deploy -d example.com --deploy-hook cpanel
Deploy ssl cert on kong proxy engine based on API
Before you can deploy your cert, you must issue the cert first. Currently supports Kong-v0.10.x.
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook kong
Deploy the cert to remote server through SSH access
The ssh deploy plugin allows you to deploy certificates to a remote host using SSH command to connect to the remote server. The ssh plugin is invoked with the following command:
acme.sh --deploy -d example.com --deploy-hook ssh
Prior to running this for the first time you must tell the plugin where and how to deploy the certificates. This is done by exporting the following environment variables. This is not required for subsequent runs as the values are stored by acme.sh in the domain configuration files.
Required:
export DEPLOY_SSH_USER=username
Optional:
export DEPLOY_SSH_CMD=custom ssh command
export DEPLOY_SSH_SERVER=url or ip address of remote host
export DEPLOY_SSH_KEYFILE=filename for private key
export DEPLOY_SSH_CERTFILE=filename for certificate file
export DEPLOY_SSH_CAFILE=filename for intermediate CA file
export DEPLOY_SSH_FULLCHAIN=filename for fullchain file
export DEPLOY_SSH_REMOTE_CMD=command to execute on remote host
export DEPLOY_SSH_BACKUP=yes or no
DEPLOY_SSH_USER
Username at the remote host that SSH will login with. Note that SSH
must be able to login to remote host without a password. SSH Keys must
have been exchanged with the remote host. Validate and test that you
can login to USER@URL
from the host running acme.sh before using this
script.
The USER@URL
at the remote server must also have has permissions to
write to the target location of the certificate files and to execute any
commands (e.g. to stop/start services).
DEPLOY_SSH_CMD
You can customize the ssh command used to connect to the remote host.
For example if you need to connect to a specific port at the remote
server you can set this to, for example, "ssh -p 22" or to use sshpass
to provide password inline instead of exchanging ssh keys (this is not
recommended, using keys is more secure).
DEPLOY_SSH_SERVER
URL or IP Address of the remote server. If not provided then the domain
name provided on the acme.sh --deploy command line is used.
DEPLOY_SSH_KEYFILE
Target filename for the private key issued by Let's Encrypt.
DEPLOY_SSH_CERTFILE
Target filename for the certificate issued by Let's Encrypt. If this is
the same as the previous filename (for keyfile) then it is appended to
the same file.
DEPLOY_SSH_CAFILE
Target filename for the CA intermediate certificate issued by Let's
Encrypt. If this is the same as a previous filename (for keyfile or
certfile) then it is appended to the same file.
DEPLOY_SSH_FULLCHAIN
Target filename for the fullchain certificate issued by Let's Encrypt.
If this is the same as a previous filename (for keyfile, certfile or
cafile) then it is appended to the same file.
DEPLOY_SSH_REMOTE_CMD
Command to execute on the remote server after copying any certificates.
This could be any additional command required for example to stop and
restart the service.
DEPLOY_SSH_BACKUP
Before writing a certificate file to the remote server the existing
certificate will be copied to a backup directory on the remote server.
These are placed in a hidden directory in the home directory of the SSH
user
~/.acme_ssh_deploy/[domain name]-backup-[timestamp]
Any backups older than 180 days will be deleted when new certificates are deployed. This defaults to "yes" set to "no" to disable backup.
Examples using SSH deploy
The following example illustrates deploying certificates to a QNAP NAS (tested with QTS version 4.2.3)
export DEPLOY_SSH_USER="admin"
export DEPLOY_SSH_KEYFILE="/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem"
export DEPLOY_SSH_CERTFILE="/etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem"
export DEPLOY_SSH_CAFILE="/etc/stunnel/uca.pem"
export DEPLOY_SSH_REMOTE_CMD="/etc/init.d/stunnel.sh restart"
acme.sh --deploy -d qnap.example.com --deploy-hook ssh
Note how in this example both the private key and certificate point to the same file. This will result in the certificate being appended to the same file as the private key, a common requirement of several services.
The next example illustrates deploying certificates to a UniFi Controller (tested with version 5.4.11).
export DEPLOY_SSH_USER="root"
export DEPLOY_SSH_KEYFILE="/var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.key"
export DEPLOY_SSH_FULLCHAIN="/var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.cer"
export DEPLOY_SSH_REMOTE_CMD="openssl pkcs12 -export \
-inkey /var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.key \
-in /var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.cer \
-out /var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.p12 \
-name ubnt -password pass:temppass \
&& keytool -importkeystore -deststorepass aircontrolenterprise \
-destkeypass aircontrolenterprise \
-destkeystore /var/lib/unifi/keystore \
-srckeystore /var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.p12 \
-srcstoretype PKCS12 -srcstorepass temppass -alias ubnt -noprompt \
&& service unifi restart"
acme.sh --deploy -d unifi.example.com --deploy-hook ssh
In this example we execute several commands on the remote host after the certificate files have been copied to generate a pkcs12 file compatible with UniFi, to import it into the UniFi keystore and then finally to restart the service.
Note also that once the certificate is imported into the keystore the individual certificate files are no longer required. We could if we desired delete those files immediately. If we do that then we should disable backup at the remote host (as there are no files to backup -- they were erased during deployment). For example:
export DEPLOY_SSH_BACKUP=no
# modify the end of the remote command...
&& rm /var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.key \
/var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.cer \
/var/lib/unifi/unifi.example.com.p12 \
&& service unifi restart
Deploy the cert to local vsftpd server
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook vsftpd
The default vsftpd conf file is /etc/vsftpd.conf
, if your vsftpd conf
is not in the default location, you can specify one:
export DEPLOY_VSFTPD_CONF="/etc/vsftpd.conf"
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook vsftpd
The default command to restart vsftpd server is service vsftpd restart
, if it doesn't work, you can specify one:
export DEPLOY_VSFTPD_RELOAD="/etc/init.d/vsftpd restart"
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook vsftpd
Deploy the cert to local exim4 server
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook exim4
The default exim4 conf file is /etc/exim/exim.conf
, if your exim4 conf
is not in the default location, you can specify one:
export DEPLOY_EXIM4_CONF="/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template"
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook exim4
The default command to restart exim4 server is service exim4 restart
,
if it doesn't work, you can specify one:
export DEPLOY_EXIM4_RELOAD="/etc/init.d/exim4 restart"
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook exim4
Deploy the cert to OSX Keychain
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook keychain
Deploy to cpanel host using UAPI
This hook is using UAPI and works in cPanel & WHM version 56 or newer.
acme.sh --deploy -d example.com --deploy-hook cpanel_uapi
DEPLOY_CPANEL_USER
is required only if you run the script as root and
it should contain cpanel username.
export DEPLOY_CPANEL_USER=username
acme.sh --deploy -d example.com --deploy-hook cpanel_uapi
Please note, that the cpanel_uapi
hook will deploy only the first
domain when your certificate will automatically renew. Therefore you
should issue a separate certificate for each domain.
Deploy the cert to your FRITZ!Box router
You must specify the credentials that have administrative privileges on the FRITZ!Box in order to deploy the certificate, plus the URL of your FRITZ!Box, through the following environment variables:
export DEPLOY_FRITZBOX_USERNAME=my_username
export DEPLOY_FRITZBOX_PASSWORD=the_password
export DEPLOY_FRITZBOX_URL=https://fritzbox.example.com
After the first deployment, these values will be stored in your
$HOME/.acme.sh/account.conf
. You may now deploy the certificate like
this:
acme.sh --deploy -d fritzbox.example.com --deploy-hook fritzbox
Deploy the cert to strongSwan
acme.sh --deploy -d ftp.example.com --deploy-hook strongswan