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🔒 SSL Certificate Manager for Let's Encrypt + reg.ru

Automated Let's Encrypt SSL certificate management with DNS validation via reg.ru API and Nginx Proxy Manager integration

📖 Description

Comprehensive solution for automating the creation, renewal, and management of Let's Encrypt SSL certificates for domains registered with reg.ru. Supports DNS-01 validation, wildcard certificates, automatic upload to Nginx Proxy Manager, and test certificate generation for development.

Key Features

  • 🔐 Automatic SSL certificate issuance via Let's Encrypt
  • 🌐 DNS-01 validation via reg.ru API (wildcard domain support)
  • 🔄 Automatic renewal with configurable threshold
  • 📦 Nginx Proxy Manager integration - automatic upload and update
  • 🧪 Test certificates - bypass Let's Encrypt rate limits (5 per week)
  • ⚙️ Full automation via systemd/cron
  • 🔀 Repository synchronization - automatic Gitea → GitHub sync

🚀 Quick Start

# Install via Makefile
sudo make install

# Configure
sudo nano /etc/letsencrypt/regru_config.json

# Create test certificate (no rate limits)
sudo make test-cert

# Get production certificate
sudo make obtain

📋 Requirements

  • OS: Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/CentOS)
  • Python: 3.6+
  • Dependencies: certbot, requests, cryptography
  • API: reg.ru (DNS management access)
  • Optional: Nginx Proxy Manager

🎯 Use Cases

  • SSL certificate automation for web servers
  • Centralized management via Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Development and testing with self-signed certificates
  • CI/CD integration
  • Multi-domain configurations with wildcards

📚 Documentation

English Documentation

Russian Documentation / Русская документация


🔨 Building Executables

The project supports building standalone executables for Linux and Windows:

# Build for current OS
make build

# Build for all platforms
make build-all

# Create full release
make release

Result:

  • Linux: letsencrypt-regru (~45-55 MB)
  • Windows: letsencrypt-regru.exe (~40-50 MB)

See BUILD_GUIDE_EN.md for details.


🎯 Automated Releases

GitHub Actions

Create a tag to trigger automatic build and release:

git tag -a v1.0.0 -m "Release 1.0.0"
git push origin v1.0.0

Gitea Actions

Same workflow available for self-hosted Gitea:

git tag -a v1.0.0 -m "Release 1.0.0"
git push origin v1.0.0

See RELEASE_GUIDE_EN.md for details.


👤 Author

Dmitry Fofanov @ 2025

📄 License

Open Source - Free to use

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome!


Last Updated: October 28, 2025