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Acquire and update SSL certificates

It needs to get SSL certificates to use Inhousead platform. Those certificates are using in two main parts of project - to get access to admin panel and to handle clicks and callbacks.

Inhousead provides user friendly service to acquire and regularly update SSL-certificates using free Let's Encrypt service. We use DNS challenges to confirm ownership of certain domains that allows to acquire not only certs for domain but also so called "wildcard"  certificates that covers all domains with one level up (e.g. *.example.com for example.com).

Usually you need to perform some actions to acquire and update certificates using DNS challenge, and it's not so simple for casual user. That's a reason we are providing a simple automated service with minimal number of actions you should perform. The only requirement is to have an access to your domain's DNS records.

 Below we describe an actions you should perform to get certificates using Inhousead automated service.

Assuming you need to get SSL-certificate for domain example.com and also a wildcard *.example.com that will allow use this cert for domains like click.example.com. So, you need to create DNS record of CNAME type with name _acme-challenge that points to address example-com-challenge.inhousead.net

It all you should do. All other actions will be performed by Inhousead automated service. Just pass domain names you set up to Inhousead technical team and don't remove DNS records you've created.