ACME Setup Tutorial?

[revengineer]

Does anyone have a pointer to a halfway intelligible tutorial for setting up ACME certificates in FreeNAS. The documentation on this subject is horrible and after 1 hour I got absolutely nowhere. In pfsense, this took about 15 minutes to setup and that included the learning curve. I appreciate any help pulling me out of frustration. Thank you.

 

[danb35]

The only current (as of 11.3-U3.2) way of doing ACME certificates that's built in to FreeNAS is using the DNS validation coded into FreeNAS, which only works with Route53 DNS. If you don't have that, the internal support won't work; you'll need to come up with another way to do it. I'd humbly suggest this:

Let's Encrypt with FreeNAS 11.1 and later

Integrating Let’s Encrypt TLS Certificates with FreeNAS FreeNAS has long had the ability to use HTTPS for the web GUI, but that has usually meant dealing with self-signed certificates and the associated headaches, or paying for a commercial...

www.ixsystems.com

 

[revengineer]

I previously found your resource post but wanted to go the GUI route. Thank you for confirming that this route is limited at this point. My DNS is at Cloudflare, so this will not work. I will take a look at your post then.