Let's Encrypt Announces Wildcard Certificates

[robzilla]

For all you subdomainers, there's good news from Let's Encrypt:

We’re pleased to announce that ACMEv2 and wildcard certificate support is live! With today’s new features we’re continuing to break down barriers for HTTPS adoption across the Web by making it even easier for every website to get and manage certificates.

ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live [community.letsencrypt.org]

[keyplyr]

Terrific news. This should offer affordable accessibility to fix those chain issues with sni.host-example.com.

[moTi]

been eagerly waiting for it, but for my boringly normal apache on ubuntu 16.04 wildcards are still not available through a decent automated process:

Certbot's DNS plugins which can be used to automate obtaining a wildcard certificate from Let's Encrypt's ACMEv2 server are not available for your OS yet.

in other words: certbot throws an error message during the domain verification process and aborts the wildcard certificate requests. been through it a few days ago and i can only advise you to just keep on waiting. both suggested alternatives, running the process after installing the certbot-auto package resp. running certbot in docker are anything but convenient. moreover, the letsencrypt documentation is notoriously dreadful. i saw myself forced to revert back to bulk certificate requests for my 400+ intl. subdomains. thumbs down.