bug#46961: [PATCH v2 0/4] Make certbot play more nicely with nginx

[Clément Lassieur]

On Tue, Jan 30 2024, Felix Lechner via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:

> Hi Carlo,
>
> On Tue, Jan 30 2024, Carlo Zancanaro wrote:
>
>> certbot can't produce certificates without a functional nginx
>
> Yes, it can. The option is called --standalone. [1]
>
> Maybe another way to bootstrap the certificates would be to hold off on
> starting Nginx or Apache until all certificates are obtained?

Yes but if we do this and there is no internet, nginx won't start right?

Carlo's solution allows to have a working nginx even when certbot fails.

(If I understand well)

> Anyway, that's what I do manually.
>
> Kind regards
> Felix
>
> [1] https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#standalone