Generate a Let's Encrypt Certificate

By John Keyes

November 12, 2016 at 00:09

ssl

Install certbot.

wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
chmod +x certbot-auto
./certbot-auto

Request a certificate using manual authentication.

./certbot-auto certonly --manual

And then enter the email for the certificate owner.

[![](img/email address.jpg)](img/email address.jpg)

Accept Let’s Encrypt Terms of Service

Specify the Domain Names

ACME Challenge Details

Using this information we set a config variable on Heroku:

Verify the ACME Challenge

Certificate Created

Last updated: November 12, 2016 at 00:09