Why it is infomal ?

Because it’s not following acme.sh author “guidance” located on acme.sh project wiki. This plugin evaluated from my private script which I used to automate Let’s Encrypt certificate renewal and I decided to adapt it little bit so it can be run as acme.sh DNS API plugin. It was tested on Debian and Ubuntu but I can’t guarantee that it will works on other systems.

I use it for renewing certificates for my domains so it “does the job”.

Installation

Clone repository dns_cd.sh to /tmp and copy dns_cd.sh DNS API plugin, to dnsapi directory in acme.sh folder.

cd /tmp/
git clone https://github.com/monsoft/dns_cd.git
cp dns_cd/dns_cd.sh /directory/.acme.sh/dnsapi/

To successfully work, plugin require jq and curl to work, so it have to be installed in system.

sudo apt install -y jq curl

Configuration

As Crazy Domain doesn’t provide API for end users (only for resellers), we have to use login details used to access Crazy Domain management web dashboard.

# Login details
CR_USERNAME="Username"
CR_PASSWORD="Password"

Using plugin

For detailed information how to use acme.sh please visit project’s Github repository https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh.

I run it in that way:

./acme.sh --issue --dns dns_cd -d 'domain_name' --server letsencrypt --preferred-chain  "ISRG Root X1" --dnssleep 600

Crazy Domain is not quick in the case of reloading DNS zone so it usually take around 10 minutes to new record appear in their name servers. I use option --dnssleep 600 so script will wait 10 minutes before it checks if _acme-challenge.domain.com record was created.

You can check this change on your own using dig command:

dig -t txt _acme-challenge.domain.com +short