nixpkgs/nixos/modules/security/acme.xml
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version="5.0"
xml:id="module-security-acme">
<title>SSL/TLS Certificates with ACME</title>
<para>
NixOS supports automatic domain validation &amp; certificate retrieval and renewal using the ACME protocol. This is currently only implemented by and for Let's Encrypt. The alternative ACME client <literal>simp_le</literal> is used under the hood.
</para>
<section xml:id="module-security-acme-prerequisites">
<title>Prerequisites</title>
<para>
You need to have a running HTTP server for verification. The server must have a webroot defined that can serve <filename>.well-known/acme-challenge</filename>. This directory must be writeable by the user that will run the ACME client.
</para>
<para>
For instance, this generic snippet could be used for Nginx:
<programlisting>
http {
server {
server_name _;
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
location /.well-known/acme-challenge {
root /var/www/challenges;
}
location / {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
}
}
</programlisting>
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-security-acme-configuring">
<title>Configuring</title>
<para>
To enable ACME certificate retrieval &amp; renewal for a certificate for <literal>foo.example.com</literal>, add the following in your <filename>configuration.nix</filename>:
<programlisting>
<xref linkend="opt-security.acme.certs"/>."foo.example.com" = {
<link linkend="opt-security.acme.certs._name_.webroot">webroot</link> = "/var/www/challenges";
<link linkend="opt-security.acme.certs._name_.email">email</link> = "foo@example.com";
};
</programlisting>
</para>
<para>
The private key <filename>key.pem</filename> and certificate <filename>fullchain.pem</filename> will be put into <filename>/var/lib/acme/foo.example.com</filename>.
</para>
<para>
Refer to <xref linkend="ch-options" /> for all available configuration options for the <link linkend="opt-security.acme.certs">security.acme</link> module.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="module-security-acme-nginx">
<title>Using ACME certificates in Nginx</title>
<para>
NixOS supports fetching ACME certificates for you by setting <literal><link linkend="opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts._name_.enableACME">enableACME</link> = true;</literal> in a virtualHost config. We first create self-signed placeholder certificates in place of the real ACME certs. The placeholder certs are overwritten when the ACME certs arrive. For <literal>foo.example.com</literal> the config would look like.
</para>
<programlisting>
services.nginx = {
<link linkend="opt-services.nginx.enable">enable = true;</link>
<link linkend="opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts">virtualHosts</link> = {
"foo.example.com" = {
<link linkend="opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts._name_.forceSSL">forceSSL</link> = true;
<link linkend="opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts._name_.enableACME">enableACME</link> = true;
locations."/" = {
<link linkend="opt-services.nginx.virtualHosts._name_.locations._name_.root">root</link> = "/var/www";
};
};
};
}
</programlisting>
</section>
</chapter>