validation-hooks-certbot-godaddy

Pre and Post Validation Hooks DNS for manual mode of certbot with GoDaddy domains

What is it ?

This repository contains pre and post validation hooks to be used with certbot command in manual mode to certify a GoDaddy Domains with DNS-01 method.

More informations are available on Certbot Doc

Required package

This script is a shell script based on /bin/sh. It uses following command tools :

curl
host

It depends on several packages :

yum install curl

How to

1. Download this script on your system
2. Replace SHELL variables API_KEY, API_SECRET and DOMAIN in this script to match them with yours values
3. Run certbot in manual mode with this two scripts as arguments :

certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges=dns --manual-auth-hook ./authenticator_godaddy.sh --manual-cleanup-hook ./cleanup_godaddy.sh -d $YOUR_DOMAIN

4. If certbot return success, you would get your new certificate on your system

Debug

If you have any problems, you can run separately this script. For authenticator_godaddy.sh, you must uncomment the line 17 to set manually $CERTBOT_VALIDATION variable. However, the line 17 must be commented in normal mode because $CERTBOT_VALIDATION variable is defined by certbot command.

Testing systems

• macSierra
• CentOS 7