This is a modified fork for nginx-certbot that can be used as a template for deploying static websites quickly on a server using Docker with nginx and Let's Encrypt. The Docker compose file will also check and auto-renew certificates if they need to be reprovisioned.
The web root is found in ./data/web. This project allows the deployment of an https site secured with Let's Encrypt using Docker.
A guide to how everything fits together can be found here.
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Follow post installation steps in the official Docker guide so the user does not need to invoke sudo. Permission issues may follow if executing the scripts with sudo privileges.
This is a replacement of the docker-compose package that may be installed with Docker. Docker compose should be updated explicitly using the official guide as the default installed version is not up to date, resulting in compatibility issues.
- All configuration files can be obtained from the
nginx-certbotsubmodule folder. Find all instances of theexample.organd replace with new domain ininit-letsencrypt.sh,docker-compose.yml, and.data/nginx/app.conf. - Set email address in
init-letsencrypt.shwith contact of person responsible for the website. - In this project, the web folder is placed in
./data/web. Replace all contents in this folder with the site files.
None of these commands require sudo privileges. Make sure dependencies are installed and initial steps have been completed.
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Run
./init-letsencrypt.sh. If errors occur here in certificate retrieval, open the script and change staging to 0 before continuing to debug. Let's Encrypt will allow up to 20 certificate retrievals before imposing a 7-day suspension on the domain's certificate generation process. -
Run
docker-compose upto check if site is properly deployed. Add-dto the options to run in detached mode after confirming site works.
docker-compose stop
docker-compose up --build -d