SSL Certificate Renewal

Sahabee currently uses Let's Encrypt for establishing a secure SSL connection.
Let's Encrypt currently issues 3-month certificates as a free plan. So it's necessary to keep the certificates up to date every 3 months (or more frequently) by going through the renewal process.

Privilege

The renewal procedure needs specific privileges (like access to DNS panel, etc.), which is currently is just granted to the admin.

Renewal Procedure

Here are the steps to renew sahabee.ir certificates in production:

• Make sure the certbot is installed in your local machine.
• Run sudo certbot certonly --preferred-challenges dns --manual and keep going on with the interactive procedure.
  • Make sure you enter both sahabee.ir and api.sahabee.ir when requested.
• Certbot will ask you to add a specific TEXT record into the DNS settings of sahabee.ir.
• After adding the record just continue the certbot procedure to finish out. The certbot will generate fullchain.pem and privkey.pem files alongside some other files.
• Update the SSL_FULL_CHAIN_FILE and SSL_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE environment variables with the content of new fullchain.pem and privkey.pem files, respectively.
• Run the Update SSL certs workflow.