Editing Elastic Beanstalk Security Certificates Archived November 2020 (section)

=== Running certbot-auto ===

<p class="alert alert-warning">WARNING! The `certbot-auto` script is not supported on Amazon Linux as of mid-2020.</p>

The following is an example `certbot-auto` command.

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$ sudo /opt/certbot/certbot-auto certonly --standalone --debug --non-interactive --email ${LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL} --agree-tos -d ${LETSENCRYPT_DOMAIN} -d www.${LETSENCRYPT_DOMAIN} --expand --renew-with-new-domains --pre-hook "service nginx stop"
</pre>

Different authentication methods can be specified. The method above creates a challenge file in the web server directory, then makes a http request for that file in order to confirm there is legitimate access to the website. This means that the domain name must point to the server where `certbot-auto` is running.