Adding 'What Is a Certificate' section

- adding what.rst to index.rst

- Bigger link to instruction generator in intro.rst, some edits to what.rst in response to comments on What is a Certificate? section first draft #4370

- Responding to St_Ranger's comment on 4370

- Edits to using.rst related to --expand

- Initial edit pass through challenges.rst

- Edits to what.rst and challenges.rst to resolve #3664 and #4153

- Incorpoprating feedback from #4370

- Finally going after those last few comments before the restructuring of the plugin stuff (coming soon)

- Fixing --expand example in using.rst and adding to Apache/NGINX bullet in challenges.rst
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Peter Conrad
2017-07-20 11:14:08 -07:00
committed by Noah Swartz
parent bb6a22b985
commit df8b374916
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@@ -290,6 +290,7 @@ using the ``--cert-name`` flag to specify a particular certificate for the ``run
certbot certonly --cert-name example.com
.. _updating_certs:
Re-creating and Updating Existing Certificates
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@@ -324,7 +325,24 @@ need to issue this command in normal circumstances.
``--expand`` tells Certbot to update an existing certificate with a new
certificate that contains all of the old domains and one or more additional
new domains.
new domains. With the ``--expand`` option, use the ``-d`` option to specify
all existing domains and one or more new domains.
Example:
.. code-block:: none
certbot --expand -d existing.com example.com,newdomain.com
If you prefer, you can specify the domains individually like this:
.. code-block:: none
certbot --expand -d existing.com -d example.com -d newdomain.com
Consider using ``--cert-name`` instead of ``--expand``, as it gives more control
over which certificate is modified and it lets you remove domains as well as adding them.
``--allow-subset-of-names`` tells Certbot to continue with certificate generation if
only some of the specified domain authorizations can be obtained. This may
@@ -338,8 +356,10 @@ certificate counts against several rate limits that are intended to prevent
abuse of the ACME protocol, as described
`here <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rate-limits-for-lets-encrypt/6769>`__.
.. _changing:
Changing a Certificate's Domains
--------------------------------
================================
The ``--cert-name`` flag can also be used to modify the domains a certificate contains,
by specifying new domains using the ``-d`` or ``--domains`` flag. If certificate ``example.com``