Quick and Easy process of getting letsencrypt wildcard domain certificate with cloudflare as dns provider

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Login to any of your server ( this method does not requires to run commands from a working apache or nginx web server hence you can even run these commands from your workstation line client machine)

Create a cloudflare credentials file
need your email id and api key of cloudflare login

you can get cloudflare api key from login into cloudflare account and nevigating to myprofile -> api tokens -> api keys -> global api key -> view

# vim .cloudflarecredentials.ini

paste content as bellow

# Cloudflare API credentials used by Certbot
dns_cloudflare_email = [email protected]
dns_cloudflare_api_key = 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567

use your mail id and api key in above file

save and make it secure

# chmod 400 .cloudflarecredentials.ini

Now install required package

# yum -y install python2-certbot-dns-cloudflare

Now run bellow command

# certbot certonly --dns-cloudflare --dns-cloudflare-credentials .cloudflarecredentials.ini -d *.mydomain.com

replace *.mydomain.com  with *. your domain

Now accept policy etc from certbot and it will automatically validate ddomain and generate certificate and key file for you.

certificate file    :  /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/fullchain.pem;
keyfile             :  /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/privkey.pem;

you can use this certificates now in nginx or apache. example bellow is config snippet for nginx

ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key  /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.com/privkey.pem;

Now for automatic renewal setup a cron as bellow

0 0,12 * * * root python -c 'import random; import time; time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && certbot renew

Done!

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