Mattermost letsencrypt not working

fusion44 2017-03-04 09:24:27 UTC #1

Hi!

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I've setup a Mattermost install to Google Compute engine. Everything worked very well except that I can't get nginx to use my letsencrypt SSL certificates. You can find my full config in this GIST. Note, I have replaced the standard ssl certificate path in /opt/bitnami/apps/mattermost/conf/certs/server.crt to the standard letsencrypt path. NGINX doesn't seem to recognize the certificates. Copying the certificates over to the standard files doesn't work either. I've also tried enabling SSL directly in mattermost but then NGINX can't connect to the backend anymore. The error log doesn't have any meaningfull error in it.

Any idea what the problem could be? Thanks!

fusion44 2017-03-04 10:37:20 UTC #2

For whatever reason - it works now. Maybe it was a DNS issue.

themapsmith 2017-05-14 13:57:05 UTC #3

Hey @fusion44. I'm really new to the cloud, and am having trouble getting letsencrypt setup. I run certbot --nginx on my GCP console and get a note certbot cannot find a virtualhost. I'm afraid that I'm so green in this area I have no clue where to start. Would you be willing to help me for a few minutes to get my Mattermost instance configured? Thanks

jsalmeron 2017-05-15 13:09:16 UTC #5

Hi,

I was able to make it work by doing the following:

sudo apt install git
git clone https://github.com/certbot/certbot
cd certbot
sudo ./certbot-auto certonly

And then using

2: Place files in webroot directory (webroot)

Specify the webroot of the server and it should work. Then you need to modify the certificate configuration in the nginx settings of mattermost in /opt/bitnami/apps/mattermost/conf.

Hope it helps.

Best regards,

Javier J. Salmerón

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