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  Re: Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert
  By: Sam Alexander to Digital Man on Tue Jul 08 2025 12:06 am

 >   Re: Unable to figure out how to create ssl.cert
 >   By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Mon Jul 07 2025 09:13 pm
 >
 >  >  > I don't have /sbbs/ctrl/ssl.cert even after stopping and restarting
 >  >  > SBBS, but I do have /sbbs/ctrl/cryptlib.key.
 >
 >  > You should probably resolve that issue first.
 >
 > What creates this or how can I troubleshoot this?

sbbs will create a self-signed cert, but only when SCFG->System-
Security->Create Self-signed Certificate is set to "Yes" (which is a new
option, that defaults to "No" since self-signed certs were confusing sysops).

 > I don't see any errors or
 > messages in the logs about this being created or not.

I forgot about that (new) option, but that's likely why.

You likely don't want a self-signed certificate anyway.

 >  > Did you set up your letsyncrypt.ini file?
 >
 > Yes, I left the KeyID as is and there wasn't anything under STATE:
 >
 > Host = acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
 > Directory = /directory
 > TOSAgreed = true
 > GroupReadableKeyFile = false
 >
 > [Domains]
 > totallynerd.com = /sbbs/web/root

What is the [Web] RootDirectory set to in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file?
The default value for this key is:

        RootDirectory = ../webv4/root

which doesn't match the path for your domain in your letsyncrypt.ini file.
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