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Before obtaining the certificates ensure that there are two DNS A record for the website name (i.e. demonodepublicdns). 

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• Renew the certificates on node server

• Enable default nginx from sites-available and disable datim and openhim-console.

  Code Block
  language bash firstline 1 title Renew Certificate for node
  maurya@ls:~$ wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto --2017-02-14 15:54:52-- https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto Resolving dl.eff.org (dl.eff.org)... 173.239.79.196 Connecting to dl.eff.org (dl.eff.org)|173.239.79.196|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 46789 (46K) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘certbot-auto’ 100%[===========================================================================================================>] 46,789 30.5KB/s in 1.5s 2017-02-14 15:55:05 (30.5 KB/s) - ‘certbot-auto’ saved [46789/46789] maurya@ls:~$ chmod a+x certbot-auto maurya@ls:~$ sudo ./certbot-auto --config /etc/letsencrypt/configs/ls.datim4u.org.conf certonly Creating virtual environment... Installing Python packages... Installation succeeded. Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing... Renewing an existing certificate Performing the following challenges: http-01 challenge for ls.datim4u.org Using the webroot path /usr/share/nginx/html for all unmatched domains. Waiting for verification... Cleaning up challenges Generating key (4096 bits): /etc/letsencrypt/keys/0001_key-certbot.pem Creating CSR: /etc/letsencrypt/csr/0001_csr-certbot.pem IMPORTANT NOTES: - Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at /etc/letsencrypt/live/ls.datim4u.org/fullchain.pem. Your cert will expire on 2017-05-15. To obtain a new or tweaked version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot-auto again. To non-interactively renew *all* of your certificates, run "certbot-auto renew" - If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by: Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/donate Donating to EFF: https://eff.org/donate-le maurya@ls:~$ sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/datim maurya@ls:~$ sudo service nginx restart * Restarting nginx nginx [ OK ] maurya@ls:~$ sudo service openhim-core restart openhim-core stop/waiting openhim-core start/running, process 25326 maurya@ls:~$ sudo service nginx restart

   

   

• Disable site default and enable sites openhim-console and datim
• Replace these with the certificates in OpenHIM Certificates tab
• Replace these with the certificates in OpenHIM global
• Select the newly added certificate in global OpenHIM to the client for the node
• Update the new certificate and key in the sync-mediator in the node OpenHIM

• Restart the mediator

  Code Block
  language bash title Restarting the mediator
  maurya@ls:~$ sudo restart openhim-mediator-openinfoman-dhis2-sync openhim-mediator-openinfoman-dhis2-sync start/running, process 4508

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Automatic certificate renewal uses a cronjob to run the update command twice a day.

     1. Ensure the following command returns successfully. It will not make any changes. It will be used in the cronjob to update the certificate if it is in need of renewal.

user@ls:/var/www# sudo ./certbot-auto --config /etc/letsencrypt/configs/ls.datim4u.org.conf certonly --dry-run
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Cert not due for renewal, but simulating renewal for dry run
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for cert.test2.ohie.org
Using the webroot path /var/www/html for all unmatched domains.
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges
Generating key (4096 bits): /etc/letsencrypt/keys/0009_key-certbot.pem
Creating CSR: /etc/letsencrypt/csr/0009_csr-certbot.pem
IMPORTANT NOTES:
 - The dry run was successful.

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• Store this script under `/etc/certbot_renewal/update_OpenHIM.sh`. 
• Ensure it is executable by running  `chmod +x /etc/certbot_renewal/update_OpenHIM.sh`.

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• Store this script under `/etc/certbot_renewal/renewal_cronjob.sh.
• Ensure it is executable by running  `chmod +x /etc/certbot_renewal/renewal_cronjob.sh`.

#!/bin/bash
## navigate to directory with ./certbot-auto
cd /path/to/certbot-auto
## check if the certificate is expiring soon and renew it if needed
sudo ./certbot-auto --config /etc/letsencrypt/configs/ls.datim4u.org.conf certonly --renew-hook "/etc/certbot_renewal/update_OpenHIM.sh" -n 
		# -n ensures a noninteractive session 
		# --renew-hook command only fires if a certificate is renewed
exit 0

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can be installed on a DATIM box to ensure that the certificate on this machine is automatically renewed. The process consists of Two Parts:

1. Install the package `datim-auto-cert-updater`
   1. Ensure the PPA is installed
   2. Configure the installation
2. Test the installation
   1. Immediately check that all functionality works
   2. Return in a few days and check that the cronjob is called successfully

The instructions to do these steps are outlined at the following link: https://github.com/OHIEDATIM/datim-auto-cert-updater/blob/master/docs/testing/readme.md

Certificate creation on CentOS:

BAO has created custom scripts to aid in the creation of certificates on CentOS and Amazon Linux hosts. That script is called certbot-new and is available on hosts with the BAO yum repository installed. In order to create a new certificate, use the following steps:

• If you need a cert for $( hostname ):
  • Use the wrapper script: certbot-new --domain=$( hostname )
  • Add the Nginx config from certbot-new to /etc/nginx/conf.d/ssl-files.conf
• Create another certificate if $( hostname ) begins with www. or is a naked domain:
  • Use the wrapper script: cerbot-new --domain=www.example.com
  • Add the Nginx config to the non-default server{} in Nginx, NOT the conf.d/ssl-files.conf file (that is intended for the default hostname/domain)

Certificate Renewal:

If the server was installed by BAO, or using BAO's tools, the cron job will automatically be installed in /etc/cron.daily/certbot-renew.

Essentially, the certbot-renew script runs the following:

certbot \
  renew \
  --quiet \
  --non-interactive \
  --agree-tos \
  --preferred-challenges 'http-01' \
  --pre-hook '/bin/mkdir -pv /var/lib/letsencrypt/html/' \
  --renew-hook "$RENEW_HOOK"

• Run `crontab -e`.  Add the following contents:

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