LetsEncrypt automation wrapper for LeGo

Overview

This script automates the request and renew of LetsEncrypt certs using LeGo. It makes it as easy as to create a cron job that runs:

legocron www.example.com altname.example.com foo.example.com

to request and refresh the certs. If you add or remove names, legocron will detect it and issue a new cert with those names.

Getting Started

Install lego. That may be via your system package manager ("apt install lego") or by downloading a binary from the lego Releases page.
Download legocron:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linsomniac/legocron/main/legocron
chmod 755 legocron
mv legocron /usr/local/sbin

Edit "legocron" and set "EMAIL_ADDR" and select a "LEGO_ARGS" provider option.
Run "legocron" with any certificate names you want to request (use staging for testing):

legocron --staging www.example.com
# or:
legocron --staging www.example.com altname.example.com foo.example.com

Check the certs in "/usr/local/lib/legocron/certificates"
Remove the "--staging" when you are done testing and want a real cert.
Set up legocron in cron:

0 0 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/legocron www.example.com
Optionally: Write a post-cert script in "/usr/local/lib/legocron/post_cert_hook" and make it executable, with any steps to take after a certificate has been issued/renewed. For exmaple, you may want to "systemctl restart apache2" in there.

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