From 52e7c7b50603c898296a350dc750807c4af9f73a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jreichmann <34141868+jreichmann@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 08:18:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Create documentation for zero-configuration-mode --- zero-config-mode.md | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 zero-config-mode.md diff --git a/zero-config-mode.md b/zero-config-mode.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b828c1d --- /dev/null +++ b/zero-config-mode.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +# Zero-configuration mode + +This is a tutorial on how to use this container (without needing to configure anything) to create +certificates for a given set of domains (using the HTTP-Challenge). + +## Prerequisites + +These are the things that you need to setup / already have set up in order to use this container +for creating certificates using the HTTP-Challenge: + +- A working internet connection, obviously +- HTTP Webserver to serve the ``.well-known`` which is used for the HTTP-Challenge + +Now create a folder in which dehydrated can push the challenge-data later, in this tutorial it +will be called ``dehydrated-www``. Configure your Webserver to serve the contents of this folder +under ``domain``/.well-known/ (for all domains which you want to create certificates for). + +Next create another folder in which dehydrated will place its configuration, certificates etc., +in this tutorial it will be called ``dehydrated-data``. In this folder, create a file called +``domains.txt`` in which you list the domains you want to create certificates for, using the +following format: + +- each domain on a new line +- subdomains of a domain on the same line as the domain. + +For more information on the format, see [https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated/blob/master/docs/domains_txt.md](https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated/blob/master/docs/domains_txt.md) + +## Using docker-dehydrated + +Now you can just run the container, and as the default challenge is the HTTP-Challenge, you do +not need to pass environment variables to alter the default behaviour. To run the container, +execute: + +```bash +$ docker run -v ./dehydrated-www:/var/www/dehydrated -v ./dehydrated-data:/etc/dehydrated jcgruenhage/dehydrated +``` + +Please note that on SELinux-Systems, you need to set the "SELinux"-Flag when passing volumes: +``./dehydrated-www:/var/www/dehydrated:z`` (analog for ``dehydrated-data``). + +Also, the container will ``chown`` the folders passed to himself, so make sure your webserver can +still server the contents of ``dehydrated-www``.