Comments on: Free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt!

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 08:46:43 +0000

In reply to Terry. I think you can choose the first one because he will export the files to your apache server. There you need to configure your apache configuration to use this certificate.

By: Michel

Michel — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 15:09:38 +0000

In reply to Romain. Hi Romain, I corrected the statements into "code" snippets in this blog. There was a problem with double minus symbols. Thanks!

By: Romain

Romain — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:57:40 +0000

Hi Michel,
Thank you for the tutorial.
It also failed for me at first. Seems we should have double dash instead of simple ones for parameters. Also, we might need to specify a folder if our website is not at the root, but in a folder of HTDOCS:

Currently:
letsencrypt.exe –manualhost castle.myhomeaddress.com –webroot C:\xampp\htdocs

Might be:
letsencrypt.exe –-manualhost castle.myhomeaddress.com –-webroot C:\xampp\htdocs

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:24:55 +0000

Hi Michel, I am very thankful I found your tutorial as there is nothing else I have found specifically for xampp and lets encrypt. However I am not so successful as yourself. When I type in the commands as you describe I get a list of options instead of how you described…it reads as follows:

C:\Users\Studio>cd c:\letsencrypt

c:\letsencrypt>letsencrypt.exe manualhost pxxxxo.xxx webroot C:\xampp\htdocs4

[INFO] Let’s Encrypt Windows Simple (LEWS)
[INFO] Software version 198.4.6605.15190 (RELEASE)
[INFO] IIS not detected
[INFO] ACME Server https://acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/
[INFO] Please report issues at https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-si
mple

M: Create new certificate with advanced options
L: List scheduled renewals
R: Renew scheduled
S: Renew specific
A: Renew *all*
V: Revoke certificate
C: Cancel scheduled renewal
X: Cancel *all* scheduled renewals
Q: Quit

Please choose from the menu: m

[INFO] Running in Advanced mode

1: Single binding of an IIS site
2: SAN certificate for all bindings of an IIS site
3: SAN certificate for all bindings of multiple IIS sites
4: Manually input host names
C: Cancel

Which kind of certificate would you like to create?:

this is where I get stuck… I do not have IIS so not sure how to proceed. But since this looks so different from what you described I thought you might have some suggestions.

Thanks

By: Michel

Michel — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:39:43 +0000

In reply to No. No, I will correct this :) what was not working? I will test and correct this tutorial

By: No

No — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:36:52 +0000

Your guide failed on the first part. Please delete this.