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With the additions from Islandora-Devops/isle-dc#228 requesting
certificates via ACME / Let's Encrypt has changed, and should be easier
for users to utilize.
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### Using Let's Encrypt instead of Certificate Files

Full support for Let's Encrypt is not available yet with ISLE, but will be soon. It can be done by hand though. Just understand that it takes editing your `docker-compose.yml` file, and those changes will be destroyed if you regenerate your `docker-compose.yml` file for any reason. Be sure to back up your `docker-compose.yml` file once you have things in place.

#### The acme.json file
Create an empty `acme` folder in `isle-dc` and bind mount it into Traefik. When Traefik start up, it will write `acme.json` to this folder. Your `volumes` section for
`traefik` in your `docker-compose.yml` file should look like

```
volumes:
- ./certs:/etc/ssl/traefik:rw
- ./tls.yml:/etc/traefik/tls.yml:rw
- ./acme:/acme:rw
```

#### Creating the certificate resolver

Add the following to the `commands` section for `traefik` to tell it to use Let's Encrypt.
To use Let's Encrypt to acquire your SSL Certificate, set the following in your .env file

```
--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.httpchallenge=true
--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.httpchallenge.entrypoint=http
--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.email=your-mail@example.org
--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.storage=/acme/acme.json
--certificatesResolvers.myresolver.acme.caServer=https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
USE_ACME=true
[email protected]
```

Be sure to replace `[email protected]` with the email address you've associated with Let's Encrypt.

#### Adding the certificate resolver to routes

For the Drupal, Matomo, and Cantaloupe services, you'll need to add labels to instruct Traefik to use the `myresolver` certificate resolver you just created.

For example, for Drupal

```
traefik.http.routers.isle-dc-drupal_https.tls.certresolver: myresolver
```

#### Troubleshooting

If you are still getting security exceptions, check what certificate is being used through your browser. Setting `--log.level=DEBUG` in the `commands` section
for `traefik` will help out greatly when debugging. You can tail the logs with `docker-compose logs -tf traefik`
If you are still getting security exceptions, check what certificate is being used through your browser. Setting `TRAEFIK_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG` in your `.env` file will help out greatly when debugging Traefik. You can tail the logs with `docker-compose logs -tf traefik`

If you aren't careful, you can hit Let's Encrypt's rate limit, and you'll be locked out for up to a week! If you want to use their staging server instead
while testing things out, use
If you aren't careful, you can hit Let's Encrypt's rate limit, and you'll be locked out for up to a week! If you want to use their staging server instead while testing things out, add the following to your .env file

```
--certificatesResolvers.myresolver.acme.caServer=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
ACME_SERVER=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
```

You'll still get security exceptions when it's working, but you should be able to check the certificate from the browser and confirm you are
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