certbot-dns-cpanel 0.3.0

certbot plugin to allow acme dns-01 authentication of a name managed in cPanel.

certbot-dns-cpanel

Plugin to allow acme dns-01 authentication of a name managed in cPanel. Useful for automating and creating a Let's Encrypt certificate (wildcard or not) for a service with a name managed by cPanel, but installed on a server not managed in cPanel.

Named Arguments

Argument	Description
--certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-credentials <file>	cPanel credentials INI file (required)
--certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-propagation-seconds <seconds>	The number of seconds to wait for DNS to propagate before asking the ACME server to verify the DNS record (Default: 30)

Install

pip install certbot-dns-cpanel

Credentials

Download the file credentials.ini.exemple and rename it to credentials.ini. Edit it to set your cPanel url, username and password.

# The url cPanel url
# include the scheme and the port number (usually 2083 for https)
certbot_dns_cpanel:cpanel_url = https://cpanel.exemple.com:2083

# The cPanel username
certbot_dns_cpanel:cpanel_username = user

# The cPanel password
certbot_dns_cpanel:cpanel_password = hunter2

Exemple

You can now run certbot using the plugin and feeding the credentials file.
For exemple, to get a wildcard certificate for *.exemple.com and exemple.com:

certbot certonly \
--authenticator certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel \
--certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-credentials /path/to/credentials.ini \
-d 'exemple.com' \
-d '*.exemple.com'

You can also specify a installer plugin with the --installer option.

certbot run \
--authenticator certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel \
--installer apache \
--certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-credentials /path/to/credentials.ini \
-d 'exemple.com' \
-d '*.exemple.com'

Docker

A docker image badjware/certbot-dns-cpanel, based on certbot/certbot is provided for your convenience:

docker run -it \
-v /path/to/credentials.ini:/tmp/credentials.ini \
badjware/certbot-dns-cpanel \
certonly \
--authenticator certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel \
--certbot-dns-cpanel:cpanel-credentials /tmp/credentials.ini \
-d 'exemple.com' \
-d '*.exemple.com'

Additional documentation

• https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/DD/Guide+to+cPanel+API+2
• https://certbot.eff.org/docs/