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Using Let's Encrypt
This page explains how to use Let's Encrypt, which is recommended by PlexTrac.
Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA) that provides an automated mechanism to request and renew free domain validated certificates that are short-lived to encourage automated renewal and to reduce the time a compromised cert could be abused.
Prerequisites
- Command-line access to the server with PlexTrac installed and running
- Ensure that port 80/443 are open inbound AND outbound for Let’s Encrypt to pull a certificate
Installing Certificate
Step 1: Navigate to the installation directory of Plextrac (e.g. /opt/plextrac) as the
plextrac user.Step 2: Edit the .env file
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Ensure that the CLIENT_DOMAIN_NAME={DNS A Record} and LETS_ENCRYPT_EMAIL={valid email address}. Verify that USE_CUSTOM_CERT=false.
Step 4: Save and exit.
Step 5: In the docker-compose.override.yml, verify that lines governing the use of a custom certificate are commented out.
- << local key path here >>:/etc/ssl/app.plextrac.key
- << local cert path here >>:/etc/ssl/app_cert_chain.crt
Step 6: Run
plextrac update to implement the changes.1
plextrac update
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