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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon certbot

DNS plugin instructions are wrong for macOS

Open alexzorin opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=other&os=osx → click the "Wildcard" tab.

DNS plugins are not available via Homebrew. The instructions should reflect this.

alexzorin avatar Apr 21 '22 01:04 alexzorin

For people looking for the correct instructions in the mean time, what is the correct approach to install these plugins without brew?

Edit: Found the answer: pip3.9 install certbot-dns-cloudflare

ecker00 avatar Jun 29 '22 19:06 ecker00

I would suggest following the official pip instructions here: https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=other&os=pip. Installing plugins directly with pip like that may lead to problems during upgrades of your system and the Certbot brew installation.

alexzorin avatar Jun 30 '22 02:06 alexzorin

There are workarounds (old and new, possibly none working currently) for this in https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/5680

However, I think @alexzorin's advice is better and perhaps a bit unclear, so I will rephrase:

Users will be much better off installing Certbot and any plugins from pip, and not using homebrew for this at all.

jvanasco avatar Aug 23 '22 19:08 jvanasco