<div dir="ltr"><div>Success!  <br><br>I used the Debian instructions for apache. Had to log in as root from 
the VM console and stop apache2. It asked about "no names were found..."
 which I found a bit troubling but I accepted the default.<br><br></div>Here's what I did:<br><br><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" id="docs-internal-guid-96c1a916-05f6-ae74-a7e9-54fb17d4d730"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Get a Domain</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Get a domain: </span><a href="https://ap.www.namecheap.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://ap.www.namecheap.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">  <a href="http://myas.xyz">myas.xyz</a> cost $1.18 </span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Make an A-Record to 162.243.179.89 and a CNAME for host www to <a href="http://myas.xyz">myas.xyz</a></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Test</span></p></li></ul></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Install Let’s Encrypt</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">sudo apt-get update</span></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><span style="font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">sudo apt-get install letsencrypt python-letsencrypt-apache</span></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Login as root from the Digital Ocean console</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Stop apache2: </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">sudo service apache2 stop</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">/etc/letsencrypt$ ls now shows: </span><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">accounts  csr  keys  renewal</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:circle;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">letsencrypt --apache</span></p></li><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">“No host names found…” Accept default</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://myas.xyz">myas.xyz</a> </span><a href="http://www.myas.xyz" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">www.myas.xyz</span></a></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:square;font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Accept Easy</span></p></li></ul></ul></ul><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Test with: </span><a href="https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=myas.xyz" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=myas.xyz</span></a><br><div><br></div><div><span></span>Debian is amazing and Let's Encrypt has done a really nice job and FreedomBox rocks. Now if we could get the domain and cert right in plinth...<br><br></div><div>Thank you!<br><br></div><div>Adrian<br></div><div><br>On Saturday, January 2, 2016, Sunil Mohan Adapa <<a href="mailto:sunil@medhas.org" target="_blank">sunil@medhas.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 01/03/2016 12:18 AM, Adrian Gropper wrote:<br>
> I'm running FreedomBox on a Digital Ocean VM at <a href="https://myas.xyz" target="_blank">https://myas.xyz</a> (ask me<br>
> directly if you want access)<br>
><br>
> I tried to follow the instructions at<br>
> <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/" target="_blank">https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/</a> and it fails with:<br>
> fbx@MyAS:~/letsencrypt$ ./letsencrypt-auto --apache<br>
> Updating letsencrypt and virtual environment dependencies.....Command<br>
> "/home/fbx/.local/share/letsencrypt/bin/python2.7 -c "import setuptools,<br>
> tokenize;__file__='/tmp/user/1001/pip-build-m794u0/cryptography/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,<br>
> 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__,<br>
> 'exec'))" install --record<br>
> /tmp/user/1001/pip-Fpnu4C-record/install-record.txt<br>
> --single-version-externally-managed --compile --install-headers<br>
> /home/fbx/.local/share/letsencrypt/include/site/python2.7/cryptography"<br>
> failed with error code 1 in /tmp/user/1001/pip-build-m794u0/cryptography<br>
><br>
> I've shared the complete terminal log here:<br>
> <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8909568/freedombox-letsencrypt-auto.log.txt" target="_blank">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8909568/freedombox-letsencrypt-auto.log.txt</a><br>
><br>
> I'm reluctant to go directly to Let's Encrypt for help because I'm such<br>
> a newbie with the FreedomBox environment.<br>
><br>
> Can anyone suggest what to try next?<br>
<br>
Let's Encrypt is now available as Debian package in unstable and<br>
testing.  Trying that might provide better results than installing from<br>
source.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Sunil<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote>
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