Certify The Web

Now when you purchase or renew a Certify The Web license key (via @stripe) we'll automatically contribute 1% of the revenue to atmospheric carbon removal projects. climate.stripe.com/fB4ln8

@richardhicks It depends which product you are trying to use, if you can install it then technically yes it can be used headless when joined to Certify Management Hub. The trick is getting it to join the hub without the UI, but it can be done from the CLI. Haven't tried it recently on core.

Doing some testing today with @certifytheweb. Looks nice, but doesn't appear to support Server Core. At least not with the standalone installer. :/ #pki #tls certifytheweb.com

Reminder that Let's Encrypt now no longer issue certs with "client authentication" enabled by default. community.letsencrypt.org/t/ending-tls-c… This mainly concerns machine-to-machine authentication using certs and does not affect most users.

Note that there are potential issues to consider with using the new Let's Encrypt "Generation Y" chain on Windows Servers (e.g. trusting the roots before your clients do). community.letsencrypt.org/t/possible-iss…

"This worked PERFECTLY.  Thanks so much.  Again, your application and team are amazing." Thanks, you're great too.

The docker version of our new Certify Management Hub product has had more than 50,000 image pulls: hub.docker.com/r/certifythewe… Give it a try, feedback is very welcome!

The release candidate for v7.x of our product suite is out now: - Certify Management Hub (Windows, Docker, Linux, macOS) - Certify Certificate Manager (Windows) - Certify Management Agent (Docker, Linux, macOS) certifytheweb.com/home/changelog…

Resolved: community.certifytheweb.com/t/important-se…

We are aware of a potential issue caused by a recent Windows Update which stops the app UI talking to it's background service API. We are currently investigating the cause and fix.

Solution is to install the very latest Windows Defender definitions (Version 1.439.216.0 or higher), which can require manual update and reboot.

We are tracking this "Service Not Started" issue regarding a broken windows update on our community forum community.certifytheweb.com/t/important-se…

BuyPass have announced they are terminating their free ACME services in October. If you are using their service you should begin migration now. community.buypass.com/t/y4y130p/buyp… Let's Encrypt and Google Trust Service are some of our suggested alternatives.

Just solved ACME challenges for all standard ACME certificate clients you might find in an organization. No more public HTTP ports, no more DNS credentials littered around, admin says who gets a cert and who doesn't. Soon to Certify Management Hub: docs.certifytheweb.com/docs/hub/

You can use v7.x onwards of our apps to get IP address certificates where supported by the CA. Let's Encrypt currently have this feature planned and it's available though their staging API using the "shortlived" ACME profile. letsencrypt.org/2025/07/01/iss…

Certify Management Hub v7.0.2 (alpha 8) is out now for Linux, Windows and docker/containers. docs.certifytheweb.com/docs/hub/ Centralized certificate management, optionally with distributed management agents (linux & windows).

If you get an error like "The CA ACME directory was not accessible" your machine is failing to talk to the Let's Encrypt API, here's how to fix it!

Reminder that if you are using your certs for Client authentication (sometimes used as authentication for machines talking to machines) that feature is being removed from most ACME CA certs.

We are seeing a surge in reports of problems with the ZeroSSL ACME API. status.zerossl.com Keep in mind that if you have multiple CA accounts configures the app can automatically fallback to a different CA: docs.certifytheweb.com/docs/guides/ce…

If you suddenly have trouble talking to Let's Encrypt from an older (or upgraded) version of Windows using tools like Certify The Web or win-acme etc, see this: community.certifytheweb.com/t/fix-could-no…

Linux users can now try out Certify Management Hub (alpha) either by installing directly docs.certifytheweb.com/docs/hub/insta… or using docker docs.certifytheweb.com/docs/hub/insta…

Let's Encrypt are discontinuing client certificates in 2026 - these are the ones you might use to authenticate a client (app etc) to a server, not traditional web server certs. letsencrypt.org/2025/05/14/end…