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    Convert Caddy Server certificates to LetsEncrypt certificates to be used by Nginx

Caddy

When using Caddy Server, it stores certificates in ~/.caddy/acme/acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/sites/{your domain name}/
3 files are stored in the folder called:

{yourdomain}.crt
{yourdomain}.json
{yourdomain}.key

LetsEncrypt + Nginx

When using LetsEncrypt's Certbot and Nginx, LetsEncrypt will store its certificates in /etc/letsencrypt/archive/{your domain name}/ with symbolic links to /etc/letsencrypt/live/{your domain name}/ with the following files:

cert.pem
chain.pem
fullchain.pem
privkey.pem

Steps to convert Caddy to LetsEncrypt:


Copy ~/.caddy/acme/acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/sites/{yourdomain}/{yourdomain}.crt to cert.pem


Copy the Active 'Intermediate Certificate' from https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/ and safe it as chain.pem


copy cert.pem + chain.pem in that order to one file called fullchain.pem


copy ~/.caddy/acme/acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org/sites/{yourdomain}/{yourdomain}.key to privkey.pem


You can then use the *.pem files in an Nginx virtual host config file similar to the following:
server {
 
    [..]
 
    location / {
        [..]
    }

    listen 443 ssl;
    ssl_certificate /your/chosen/path/to/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /your/chosen/path/to/privkey.pem;
    include /your/chosen/path/to/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
    ssl_dhparam /your/chosen/path/to/ssl-dhparams.pem;

}