Certbot obtain / renew manual (letsencrypt - wildcard)
If you’d like to obtain a certificate running certbot on a machine other than your target webserver or perform the steps for domain validation yourself, you can use the manual plugin. While hidden from the UI, you can use the plugin to obtain a certificate by specifying certonly and --manual on the command line. This requires you to copy and paste commands into another terminal session, which may be on a different computer. To manually renew a certificate using --manual without hooks, repeat the same certbot --manual command you used to create the certificate originally. As this will require you to copy and paste new HTTP files or DNS TXT records, the command cannot be automated with a cron job. The manual plugin can use either the http or the dns challenge. You can use the --preferred-challenges option to choose the challenge of your preference. I prefer to use dns , so it would look l...