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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_md</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Managing domains across virtual hosts, certificate provisioning 
        via the ACME protocol
    </td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module&nbsp;Identifier:</a></th><td>md_module</td></tr>
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<h3>Summary</h3>

        <p>
        This module manages common properties of domains for one or more virtual hosts. 
        Its serves two main purposes: for one, supervise/renew TLS certificates via the 
        ACME protocol (<a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8555">RFC 8555</a>). 
        Certificates will be renewed by the module ahead of their expiration to account 
        for disruption in internet services. There are ways to monitor the status of all 
        certificates managed this way and configurations that will run your own 
        notification commands on renewal, expiration and errors.
        </p><p>
        Second, mod_md offers an alternate OCSP Stapling implementation. This works with
        managed certificates as well as with certificates you configure yourself. OCSP
        Stapling is a necessary component for any https: site, influencing page load
        times and, depending on other setups, page availability. More in the
        stapling section below.
        </p><p>
        The default ACME Authority for managing certificates is 
        <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">Let's Encrypt</a>, but it is possible 
        to configure another CA that supports the protocol.
        </p>
        
        <p>Simple configuration example:</p>
        
        <div class="note"><h3>TLS in a VirtualHost context</h3>
        <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDomain example.org

&lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;
    ServerName example.org
    DocumentRoot htdocs/a

    SSLEngine on
    # no certificates specification
&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;</pre>

        <p>
            This setup will, on server start, contact
            <a href="https://letsencrypt.org/">Let's Encrypt</a>
            to request a certificate for the domain. If Let's Encrypt can verify the ownership
            of the domain, the module will retrieve the certificate and its chain, store it
            in the local file system (see <code class="directive"><a href="#mdstoredir">MDStoreDir</a></code>)
            and provide it, on next restart, to <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code>.
        </p><p>
            This happens while the server is already running. All other hosts will continue
            to work as before. While a certificate is not available, requests for the managed
            domain will be answered with a '503 Service Unavailable'. 
        </p>
        </div>

        <div class="note"><h3>Prerequisites</h3>
        <p>
            This module requires <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_watchdog.html">mod_watchdog</a></code> to be loaded as well.
        </p><p>
            Certificate sign-up and renewal with Let's Encrypt requires your server to be
            reachable on port 80 (http:) and/or port 443 (https:) from the public internet.
            (Unless your server is configured to use DNS for challenges - more on that under
             'wildcard certificates')  
        </p><p>
            The module will select from the methods offered by Let's Encrypt. Usually LE offers
            challenges on both ports and DNS and Apache chooses a method available.
        </p><p>
            To determine which one is available, the module looks at the ports
            Apache httpd listens on. If those include port 80, it assumes that the
            http: challenge (named http-01) is available. If the server listens
            on port 443, the https: challenge (named tls-alpn-01) is also added to
            the list. (And if <code class="directive"><a href="#mdchallengedns01">MDChallengeDns01</a></code> 
            is configured, the challenge dns-01 is added as well.) 
        </p><p>
            If your setup is not so straight forward, there are two methods available
            to influence this. First, look at <code class="directive"><a href="#mdportmap">MDPortMap</a></code>
            if the server is behind a portmapper, such as a firewall. Second, you may
            override the module's guesswork completely by configuring
            <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcachallenges">MDCAChallenges</a></code> directly.  
        </p>
        </div>

        <div class="note"><h3>https: Challenges</h3>
        <p>
            For domain verification via the TLS protocol `tls-alpn-01` is the name
            of the challenge type. It requires the Apache server to listen on port 443
            (see <code class="directive"><a href="#mdportmap">MDPortMap</a></code> if you map that port
            to something else).
        </p><p>
            Let's Encrypt will open a TLS connection to Apache using the special indicator
            `acme-tls/1` (this indication part of TLS is called ALPN, therefore the name
            of the challenge. ALPN is also used by browsers to request a HTTP/2 connection).
        </p><p>
            As with the HTTP/2 protocol, to allow this, you configure:
        </p>
        <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">Protocols h2 http/1.1 acme-tls/1</pre>

        <p>
            And the `tls-alpn-01` challenge type is available.
	</p>
        </div>

        <div class="note"><h3>Wildcard Certificates</h3>
        <p>
            Wildcard certificates are possible, but not straight-forward to use out of
            the box. Let's Encrypt requires the `dns-01` challenge verification 
            for those. No other is considered good enough.
        </p><p>
            The difficulty here is that Apache cannot do that on its own. As the name implies, `dns-01` 
            requires you to show some specific DNS records for your domain that contain 
            some challenge data. So you need to _write_ your domain's DNS records.
        </p><p>
            If you know how to do that, you can integrated this with mod_md. Let's 
            say you have a script for that in `/usr/bin/acme-setup-dns` you configure 
            Apache with:
        </p>
        <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDChallengeDns01 /usr/bin/acme-setup-dns</pre>

        <p>
            and Apache will call this script when it needs to setup/teardown a DNS challenge 
            record for a domain. 
        </p><p>
            Assuming you want a certificate for `*.mydomain.com`, mod_md will call:
        </p>
        <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">/usr/bin/acme-setup-dns setup mydomain.com challenge-data
# this needs to remove all existing DNS TXT records for 
# _acme-challenge.mydomain.com and create a new one with 
# content "challenge-data"</pre>

        <p>
            and afterwards it will call
        </p>
        <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">/usr/bin/acme-setup-dns teardown mydomain.com
# this needs to remove all existing DNS TXT records for 
# _acme-challenge.mydomain.com</pre>

        </div>

        <div class="note"><h3>Monitoring</h3>
            <p>
                Apache has a standard module for monitoring: <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_status.html">mod_status</a></code>.
                mod_md contributes a section and makes monitoring your 
                domains easy.
            </p><p>
                You see all your MDs listed alphabetically, the domain names they contain, 
                an overall status, expiration times and specific settings. The settings 
                show your selection of renewal times (or the default), the CA that is used, 
                etc.
            </p><p>
                The 'Renewal' column will show activity and error descriptions for certificate 
                renewals. This should make life easier for people to find out if everything 
                is all right or what went wrong.
            </p><p>
                If there is an error with an MD it will be shown here as well. This let's 
                you assess problems without digging through your server logs.
            </p><p>
                There is also a new 'md-status' handler available to give you the MD information 
                from 'server-status' in JSON format. You configure it as
            </p>
            <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;Location "/md-status"&gt;
  SetHandler md-status
&lt;/Location&gt;</pre>

            <p>
                on your server. As with 'server-status' you will want to add 
                authorization for this. 
            </p><p>
                If you just want to check the JSON status of a specific domain, simply append 
                that to your status url:
            </p>
            <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&gt; curl https://&lt;yourhost&gt;/md-status/another-domain.org
{
  "name": "another-domain.org",
  "domains": [
    "another-domain.org",
    "www.another-domain.org"
  ],
  ...</pre>

            <p>
                This JSON status also shows a log of activities when domains are renewed:
            </p>
            <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">{
"when": "Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:45:58 GMT",
"type": "progress", "detail": "The certificate for the managed domain has been renewed successfully and can be used. A graceful server restart now is recommended."
},{
"when": "Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:45:58 GMT",
"type": "progress", "detail": "Retrieving certificate chain for test-901-003-1560955549.org"
},{
"when": "Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:45:58 GMT",
"type": "progress", "detail": "Waiting for finalized order to become valid"
},{
"when": "Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:45:50 GMT",
"type": "progress", "detail": "Submitting CSR to CA for test-901-003-1560955549.org"
},
...</pre>

            <p>
                You will also find this information in the file `job.json` in your staging and, 
                when activated, domains directory. This allows you to inspect these at
                any later point in time as well. 
            </p><p>
                In addition, there is <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcertificatestatus">MDCertificateStatus</a></code> which
                gives access to relevant certificate information in JSON format.
            </p>
        </div>

        <div class="note"><h3>Stapling</h3>
            <p>
                If you want to try the stapling in one Managed Domain alone at first,
                configure:
            </p>
            <pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;MDomain mydomain.net&gt;
  MDStapling on
&lt;/MDomain&gt;</pre>

            <p>
                and use the 'server-status' and/or <code class="directive"><a href="#mdmessagecmd">MDMessageCmd</a></code> to see how it operates. You will
                see if Stapling information is there, how long it is valid, from where it came and
                when it will be refreshed.
            </p><p>
                If this all works to your satisfaction, you can switch it on for all your
                certificates or just your managed ones.
            </p><p>
                The existing stapling implementation by mod_ssl is used by many sites
                for years. There are two main differences between the mod_ssl and mod_md
                one:
            </p>
            <ol>
                <li>On demand vs. scheduled: mod_ssl retrieves the stapling information
                when it is requested, e.g. on a new connection. mod_md retrieves it
                right at server start and after 2/3rds of its lifetime.</li>
                <li>In memory vs. persisted: mod_ssl <em>can</em> persist this
                information, but most example configurations use a memory cache. mod_md
                always stores in the file system.</li>
            </ol>
            <p>
                If you are unlucky and restart your server during an outage of your CA's
                OCSP service, your users may no longer reach your sites. Without persistence
                your server cannot provide the client with the data and the client browser
                cannot get it as well, since the OCSP service is not responding. 
            </p><p>
                The implementation in mod_md will have persisted it, load it again after
                restart and have it available for incoming connections. A day or two before
                this information expires, it will renew it, making it able to cope with
                a long OCSP service downtime.
            </p><p>
                Due to backward compatibility, the existing implementation in mod_ssl could
                not be changed drastically. For example, mod_ssl is unable to add a dependency 
                to mod_watchdog without braking many existing installations (that do not load it).
            </p>
        </div>

    </div>
<div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
<ul id="toc">
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdactivationdelay">MDActivationDelay</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdbaseserver">MDBaseServer</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcacertificatefile">MDCACertificateFile</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcachallenges">MDCAChallenges</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcertificateagreement">MDCertificateAgreement</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcertificateauthority">MDCertificateAuthority</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcertificatecheck">MDCertificateCheck</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcertificatefile">MDCertificateFile</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcertificatekeyfile">MDCertificateKeyFile</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcertificatemonitor">MDCertificateMonitor</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcertificateprotocol">MDCertificateProtocol</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcertificatestatus">MDCertificateStatus</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdchallengedns01">MDChallengeDns01</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdchallengedns01version">MDChallengeDns01Version</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcheckinterval">MDCheckInterval</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdcontactemail">MDContactEmail</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mddrivemode">MDDriveMode</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdexternalaccountbinding">MDExternalAccountBinding</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdhttpproxy">MDHttpProxy</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdinitialdelay">MDInitialDelay</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdmatchnames">MDMatchNames</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdmember">MDMember</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdmembers">MDMembers</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdmessagecmd">MDMessageCmd</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdmuststaple">MDMustStaple</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdnotifycmd">MDNotifyCmd</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdomain">MDomain</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdomainsetsection">&lt;MDomainSet&gt;</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdportmap">MDPortMap</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdprivatekeys">MDPrivateKeys</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdprofile">MDProfile</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdprofilemandatory">MDProfileMandatory</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdrenewmode">MDRenewMode</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdrenewviaari">MDRenewViaARI</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdrenewwindow">MDRenewWindow</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdrequirehttps">MDRequireHttps</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdretrydelay">MDRetryDelay</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdretryfailover">MDRetryFailover</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdserverstatus">MDServerStatus</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdstapleothers">MDStapleOthers</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdstapling">MDStapling</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdstaplingkeepresponse">MDStaplingKeepResponse</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdstaplingrenewwindow">MDStaplingRenewWindow</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdstoredir">MDStoreDir</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdstorelocks">MDStoreLocks</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif"> <a href="#mdwarnwindow">MDWarnWindow</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Bugfix checklist</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="https://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/CHANGES_2.4">httpd changelog</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&amp;list_id=144532&amp;product=Apache%20httpd-2&amp;query_format=specific&amp;order=changeddate%20DESC%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&amp;component=mod_md">Known issues</a></li><li><a href="https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Apache%20httpd-2&amp;component=mod_md">Report a bug</a></li></ul></div>

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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdactivationdelay"><span id="MDActivationDelay">MDActivationDelay</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdactivationdelay" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>How long to delay activation of new certificates</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDActivationDelay <var>duration</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.42 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
            </p>
        
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdbaseserver"><span id="MDBaseServer">MDBaseServer</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdbaseserver" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Control if base server may be managed or only virtual hosts.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDBaseServer on|off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDBaseServer off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
            Controls if the base server, the one outside all VirtualHosts should be managed by 
            mod_md or not. By default, it will not. For the very reason that 
            it may have confusing side-effects. It is recommended that you have virtual hosts 
            for all managed domains and do not rely on the global, fallback server configuration.
            </p>
        
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcacertificatefile"><span id="MDCACertificateFile">MDCACertificateFile</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcacertificatefile" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>File containing x509 trust anchors to verify ACME servers.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCACertificateFile <var>file</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDCACertificateFile none</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This is mainly used in test setups where the module needs to
                connect to a test ACME server that has its own root certificate.
                People who run an enterprise wide internal CA can use this when
                they run their own ACME servers.
            </p>
            <p>
                Use "none" as path to disable explicitly.
            </p>
        
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcachallenges"><span id="MDCAChallenges">MDCAChallenges</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcachallenges" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Type of ACME challenge used to prove domain ownership.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCAChallenges <var>name</var> [ <var>name</var> ... ]</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDCAChallenges tls-alpn-01 http-01 dns-01</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Sets challenge types (in order of preference) when proving domain ownership.
                Supported by the module are the challenge methods 'tls-alpn-01', 'dns-01'  
                and 'http-01'. The module will look at the overall configuration of the server 
                to find out which methods can be used. 
            </p><p>
                If the server listens on port 80, for example, the 'http-01' method is available. 
                The prerequisite for 'dns-01' is a configured  <code class="directive"><a href="#mdchallengedns01">MDChallengeDns01</a></code> command. 
                'tls-alpn-01' is described above in 'https: Challenges'.
            </p><p>
                This auto selection works for most setups. But since Apache is a very powerful 
                server with many configuration options, the situation is not clear for all 
                possible cases. For example: it may listen on multiple IP addresses where some 
                are reachable on `https:` and some not.
            </p><p>
                If you configure <code class="directive">MDCAChallenges</code> directly, this auto selection is disabled. 
                Instead, the module will use the configured challenge list when talking to 
                the ACME server (a challenge type must be offered by the server as well). 
                This challenges are examined in the order specified.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcertificateagreement"><span id="MDCertificateAgreement">MDCertificateAgreement</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcertificateagreement" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>You confirm that you accepted the Terms of Service of the Certificate
        Authority.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateAgreement accepted</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>When you use mod_md to obtain a certificate, you become a customer of the CA (e.g. Let's Encrypt). That means you need to read and agree to their Terms of Service, 
            so that you understand what they offer and what they might exclude or require from you. 
            mod_md cannot, by itself, agree to such a thing. 
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcertificateauthority"><span id="MDCertificateAuthority">MDCertificateAuthority</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcertificateauthority" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The URL(s) of the ACME Certificate Authority to use.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateAuthority <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateAuthority letsencrypt</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The URL(s) where the CA offers its service.
                Instead of the actual URL, you may use 'letsencrypt' or 'buypass'.
            </p><p>
                If you configure more than one URL, each one is tried in a round-robin
                fashion after a number of failures. You can configure how quickly or
                delayed that happens via the <code class="directive">MDRetryDelay</code> and
                <code class="directive">MDRetryFailover</code> directives. The default setting
                makes a failover after about half a day of trying.
            </p><p>
                All other settings apply to each of these URLs. It is therefore
                not possible to have two with different
                <code class="directive">MDExternalAccountBinding</code>s, for example.
            </p><p>
                For testing, CAs commonly offer a second service URL.
                The 'test' service does not give certificates valid in a browser,
                but are more relaxed in regard to rate limits.
                This allows for verification of your own setup before switching
                to the production service URL.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>LE Test Setup</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDCertificateAuthority https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory</pre>
</div>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcertificatecheck"><span id="MDCertificateCheck">MDCertificateCheck</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcertificatecheck" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Set name and URL pattern for a certificate monitoring site.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateCheck <var>name</var> <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.42 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcertificatefile"><span id="MDCertificateFile">MDCertificateFile</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcertificatefile" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Specify a static certificate file for the MD.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateFile <var>path-to-pem-file</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This is used inside a <code class="directive"><a href="#mdomainset">MDomainSet</a></code> and specifies
                the file holding the certificate chain for the Managed Domain. The matching
                key is specified via <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcertificatekeyfile">MDCertificateKeyFile</a></code>.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;MDomain mydomain.com&gt;
  MDCertificateFile /etc/ssl/my.cert
  MDCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/my.key
&lt;/MDomain&gt;</pre>
</div>

            <p>
                This is that equivalent of the mod_ssl 
                <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html#sslcertificatefile">SSLCertificateFile</a></code> directive. It 
                has several uses. 
            </p><p>
                If you want to migrate an existing domain, using static files, to
                automated Let's Encrypt certificates, for one. You define the
                <code class="directive"><a href="#mdomainset">MDomainSet</a></code>, add the files here and remove
                the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html#sslcertificatefile">SSLCertificateFile</a></code> from
                your VirtualHosts. 
            </p><p>
                This will give you the same as before, with maybe less repeating lines
                in your configuration. Then you can add <code class="directive"><a href="#mdrenewmode">MDRenewMode</a></code>
                'always' to it and the module will get a new certificate before
                the one from the file expires. When it has done so, you remove the
                <code class="directive">MDCertificateFile</code> and reload the server.
            </p><p>
                Another use case is that you renew your Let's Encrypt certificates with
                another ACME clients, for example the excellent 
                <a href="https://certbot.eff.org">certbot</a>. Then let your MDs point
                to the files from certbot and have both working together.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcertificatekeyfile"><span id="MDCertificateKeyFile">MDCertificateKeyFile</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcertificatekeyfile" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Specify a static private key for for the static cerrtificate.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateKeyFile <var>path-to-file</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This is used inside a <code class="directive"><a href="#mdomainset">MDomainSet</a></code> and specifies
                the file holding the private key for the Managed Domain. The matching
                certificate is specified via <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcertificatefile">MDCertificateFile</a></code>.
            </p><p>
                This is that equivalent of the mod_ssl 
                <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html#sslcertificatekeyfile">SSLCertificateKeyFile</a></code> directive.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcertificatemonitor"><span id="MDCertificateMonitor">MDCertificateMonitor</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcertificatemonitor" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The URL of a certificate log monitor.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateMonitor name url</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateMonitor crt.sh https://crt.sh?q=</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This is part of the 'server-status' HTML user interface and has nothing to 
                do with the core functioning itself. It defines the link offered on that 
                page for easy checking of a certificate monitor. The SHA256 fingerprint 
                of the certificate is appended to the configured url.
            </p><p>
                Certificate Monitors offer supervision of Certificate Transparency (CT) 
                Logs to track the use of certificates for domains. The least you may see 
                is that Let's Encrypt (or whichever CA you have configured) has entered 
                your certificates into the CTLogs.
            </p><p>
                Caveat: certificate logs update and monitor's intakes of those
                updates suffer some delay. This varies between logs and monitors. A
                brand new certificate will not be known immediately.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcertificateprotocol"><span id="MDCertificateProtocol">MDCertificateProtocol</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcertificateprotocol" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The protocol to use with the Certificate Authority.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateProtocol <var>protocol</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateProtocol ACME</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Specifies the protocol to use. Currently, only <code>ACME</code> is supported.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcertificatestatus"><span id="MDCertificateStatus">MDCertificateStatus</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcertificatestatus" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Exposes public certificate information in JSON.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateStatus on|off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDCertificateStatus on</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                When enabled, a resources is available in Managed Domains at
                'https://domain/.httpd/certificate-status' that returns a JSON
                document list key properties of the current and of a renewed
                certificate - when available.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">{
  "valid-until": "Thu, 29 Aug 2019 16:06:35 GMT",
  "valid-from": "Fri, 31 May 2019 16:06:35 GMT",
  "serial": "03039C464D454EDE79FCD2CAE859F668F269",
  "sha256-fingerprint": "1ff3bfd2c7c199489ed04df6e29a9b4ea6c015fe8a1b0ce3deb88afc751e352d"
  "renewal" : { ...renewed cert information... }
}</pre>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdchallengedns01"><span id="MDChallengeDns01">MDChallengeDns01</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdchallengedns01" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Set the command for setup/teardown of dns-01 challenges</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDChallengeDns01 <var>path-to-command</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Define a program to be called when the `dns-01` challenge needs to be setup/torn down. 
                The program is given the argument `setup` or `teardown` followed by the domain name. 
                For `setup` the challenge content is additionally given. When
                <code class="directive"><a href="#mdchallengedns01version">MDChallengeDns01Version</a></code> is set to 2,
                the `teardown` also gets the challenge content as argument.
            </p><p>
                You do not need to specify this, as long as a 'http:' or 'https:' challenge
                method is possible. However, Let's Encrypt makes 'dns-01' the only
                challenge available for wildcard certificates. If you require
                one of those, you need to configure this.
            </p><p>
                It is now possible to use this directive inside a <code class="directive"><a href="#mdomain">MDomain</a></code>
                section to specify a specific command for that domain. This allows to configure
                a script specific for the particular DNS provider involved.
            </p><p>
                See the section about wildcard certificates above for more details.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdchallengedns01version"><span id="MDChallengeDns01Version">MDChallengeDns01Version</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdchallengedns01version" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Set the type of arguments to call MDChallengeDns01 with</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDChallengeDns01Version 1|2</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDChallengeDns01Version 1</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.58 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Set the way MDChallengeDns01 command is invoked, e.g the number and
                types of arguments. See <code class="directive"><a href="#mdchallengedns01">MDChallengeDns01</a></code>
                for the differences.
                This setting is global and cannot be varied per domain.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcheckinterval"><span id="MDCheckInterval">MDCheckInterval</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcheckinterval" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Determines how often certificates are checked</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDCheckInterval <var>duration</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDCheckInterval 12h</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.60 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The time between certificate checks. By default, the validity
                and need for renewals is checked twice a day. This interval is
                not followed precisely. Instead the module randomly applies
                a +/-50% jitter to it. With the default of 12 hours, this
                means the actual time between runs varies between 6 and 18
                hours, jittered anew every run. This helps to mitigate
                traffic peaks at ACME servers.
            </p><p>
                The minimum duration you may configure is 1 second. It is
                not recommended to use such short times in production.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdcontactemail"><span id="MDContactEmail">MDContactEmail</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdcontactemail" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Email address used for account registration</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDContactEmail <var>address</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.42 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The ACME protocol requires you to give a contact url when you sign up. Currently, 
                Let's Encrypt wants an email address (and it will use it to inform you about renewals 
                or changed terms of service). <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_md.html">mod_md</a></code> uses the <code class="directive">MDContactEmail</code> directive email in 
                your Apache configuration, so please specify the correct address there. 
                If <code class="directive">MDContactEmail</code> is not present, <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_md.html">mod_md</a></code> will use the 
                <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#serveradmin">ServerAdmin</a></code> directive.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mddrivemode"><span id="MDDriveMode">MDDriveMode</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mddrivemode" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>former name of MDRenewMode.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDDriveMode always|auto|manual</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDDriveMode auto</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>This directive exists for backward compatibility as the old name for
            <code class="directive"><a href="#mdrenewmode">MDRenewMode</a></code>.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdexternalaccountbinding"><span id="MDExternalAccountBinding">MDExternalAccountBinding</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdexternalaccountbinding" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Set the external account binding keyid and hmac values to use at CA</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDExternalAccountBinding <var>key-id</var> <var>hmac-64</var> | none | <var>file</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDExternalAccountBinding none</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.52 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Configure values for ACME "External Account Binding", a feature
                of the ACME standard that allows clients to bind registrations
                to an existing customer account on ACME servers.
            </p>
            <p>
                Let's Encrypt does not require those, but other ACME CAs do.
                Check with your ACME CA if you need those and how to obtain the
                values. They are two strings, a key identifier and a base64 encoded
                'hmac' value.
            </p>
            <p>
                You can configure those globally or for a specific MDomain. Since
                these values allow anyone to register under the same account, it is
                advisable to give the configuration file restricted permissions,
                e.g. root only.
            </p>
            <p>
                The value can also be taken from a JSON file, to keep more open
                permissions on the server configuration and restrict the ones on that
                file. The JSON itself is:
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>EAB JSON Example file</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">{"kid": "kid-1", "hmac": "zWND..."}</pre>
</div>
            <p>
                If you change EAB values, the new ones will be used when the next
                certificate renewal is due.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdhttpproxy"><span id="MDHttpProxy">MDHttpProxy</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdhttpproxy" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Define a proxy for outgoing connections.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDHttpProxy <var>url</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>Use a http proxy to connect to the <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcertificateauthority">MDCertificateAuthority</a></code>. Define this
            if your webserver can only reach the internet with a forward proxy.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdinitialdelay"><span id="MDInitialDelay">MDInitialDelay</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdinitialdelay" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>How long to delay the first certificate check.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDInitialDelay <var>duration</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDInitialDelay 0s</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.66 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The amount of time to wait after the server start to check
                renewals of certificates. By default this occurs right away.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdmatchnames"><span id="MDMatchNames">MDMatchNames</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdmatchnames" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Determines how DNS names are matched to vhosts</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDMatchNames all|servernames</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDMatchNames all</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.58 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The mode `all` is the behavior as in all previous versions. Both ServerName
                and ServerAlias are inspected to find the MDomain matching a VirtualHost.
                This automatically detects coverage, even when you only have added
                one of the names to an MDomain.
            </p><p>
                However, this auto-magic has drawbacks in more complex setups. If you set
                this directive to `servernames`, only the ServerName of a virtual host is
                used for matching. ServerAliases are disregarded then, for matching.
                Aliases will still be added to the certificate obtained, unless you also
                run `MDMembers manual`.
            </p><p>
                Another advantage of `servernames` is that it gives you more flexibility
                with sub-domains and wildcards. You can define one MDomain with a wildcard
                and have other MDomains for specific sub-domain names.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdmember"><span id="MDMember">MDMember</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdmember" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Additional hostname for the managed domain.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDMember <var>hostname</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
            Instead of listing all dns names on the same line, you may use
            <code class="directive">MDMember</code> to add such names
            to a managed domain.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;MDomain example.org&gt;
    MDMember www.example.org
    MDMember mail.example.org
&lt;/MDomain&gt;</pre>
</div>
            <p>
               If you use it in the global context, outside a specific MD, you can only
               specify one value, 'auto' or 'manual' as the default for all other MDs. See
               <code class="directive"><a href="#mdomain">MDomain</a></code> for a
               description of these special values.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdmembers"><span id="MDMembers">MDMembers</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdmembers" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Control if the alias domain names are automatically added.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDMembers auto|manual</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDMembers auto</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>Defines if the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#servername">ServerName</a></code> and
               <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#serveralias">ServerAlias</a></code> values of a VirtualHost
               are automatically added to the members of a Managed Domain or not.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdmessagecmd"><span id="MDMessageCmd">MDMessageCmd</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdmessagecmd" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Handle events for Manage Domains</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDMessageCmd <var>path-to-cmd</var> <var>optional-args</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This command gets called when one of the following events happen for
                a Managed Domain: "renewed", "installed", "expiring", "errored", "renewing", "challenge-setup:type:domain", "ocsp-renewed", "ocsp-errored". The command may
                be invoked for more than these in the future and ignore events
                it is not prepared to handle.
            </p><p>
                This is the more flexible companion to <code class="directive"><a href="#mdnotifycmd">MDNotifyCmd</a></code>.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDMessageCmd /etc/apache/md-message</pre>
<p><code>

# will be invoked when a new certificate for mydomain.org is available as:
/etc/apache/md-message renewed mydomain.com
            </code></p></div>
            <p>
                The program should not block, as the module will wait for it to finish. A
                return code other than 0 is regarded as an error. 
            </p><p>
                'errored' is no immediate cause for concern since renewal is attempted
                early enough to allow the internet to come back. This is reported at most
                once per hour. 
            </p><p>
                'expiring' should be taken serious. It is issued when the
                <code class="directive"><a href="#mdwarnwindow">MDWarnWindow</a></code> is reached. By default this is
                10% of the certificate lifetime, so for Let's Encrypt this currently
                means 9 days before it expires. The warning is repeated at most once
                a day. 
            </p><p>
                'renewed' means that a new certificate has been obtained and is stored
                in the 'staging' area in the MD store. It will be activated on the next
                server restart/reload.
            </p><p>
                'installed' is triggered when a new certificate has been transferred from
                staging into the domains location in MD store. This happens at server
                startup/reload. Different to all other invocations, <code class="directive">MDMessageCmd</code> is run
                with root permissions (on *nix systems) and has access to the certificate
                files (and keys). Certificates needed for other applications or
                in different formats can be processed on this event.
            </p><p>
                'renewing' event is triggered before starting renew process for the managed
                 domain. Should the command return != 0 for this reason, renew will be
                 aborted and repeated on next cycle. Some cluster setups use this to
                 allow renewals to run only on a single node.
            </p><p>
                'challenge-setup:type:domain' event is triggered when the challenge data for a domain has
                been created. This is invoked before the ACME server is told to check for it.
                The type is one of the ACME challenge types. This is invoked for every
                DNS name in a MDomain. Cluster setups may use this event to distribute
                challenge files to all nodes in a cluster.
            </p><p>
                'ocsp-errored' happens when <code class="directive"><a href="#mdstapling">MDStapling</a></code>
                is enabled for a domain, this indicates
                that an error was encountered retrieving the OCSP response from the
                Certificate Authority. mod_md will continue trying.
            </p><p>
                'ocsp-renewed' is triggered when a new OCSP response has been
                successfully obtained for a domain's certificate. This event fires
                at most once per day.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdmuststaple"><span id="MDMustStaple">MDMustStaple</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdmuststaple" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Control if new certificates carry the OCSP Must Staple flag.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDMustStaple on|off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDMustStaple off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>Defines if newly requested certificate should have the OCSP Must Staple flag 
            set or not. If a certificate has this flag, the server is required to send a 
            OCSP stapling response to every client. This only works if you configure 
            <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code> to generate this (see <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html#sslusestapling">SSLUseStapling</a></code>
            and friends).
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdnotifycmd"><span id="MDNotifyCmd">MDNotifyCmd</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdnotifycmd" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Run a program when a Managed Domain is ready.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDNotifyCmd <var>path</var> [ <var>args</var> ]</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The configured executable is run when a Managed Domain has signed up or
                renewed its certificate. It is given the name of the processed MD as
                additional arguments (after the parameters specified here). It should 
                return status code 0 to indicate that it has run successfully.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdomain"><span id="MDomain">MDomain</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdomain" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Define list of domain names that belong to one group.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDomain <var>dns-name</var> [ <var>other-dns-name</var>... ] [auto|manual]</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                All the names in the list are managed as one Managed Domain (MD). 
                mod_md will request one single certificate that is valid for all these names. This
                directive uses the global settings (see other MD directives below). If you
                need specific settings for one MD, use
                the <code class="directive"><a href="#mdomainset">&lt;MDomainSet&gt;</a></code>.
            </p><p>
                There are 2 additional settings that are necessary for a Managed Domain:
                a contact Email address (via <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcontactemail">MDContactEmail</a></code> or <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#serveradmin">ServerAdmin</a></code>)
                and <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcertificateagreement">MDCertificateAgreement</a></code>.
                The mail address of <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#serveradmin">ServerAdmin</a></code>
                is used to register at the CA (Let's Encrypt by default).
                The CA may use it to notify you about
                changes in its service or status of your certificates.
            </p><p>
                The second setting, <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcertificateagreement">MDCertificateAgreement</a></code>, 
                should have the value "accepted". By specifying this, you confirm that your
                accept the Terms of Service of the CA. 
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDContactEmail admin@example.org
MDCertificateAgreement accepted
MDomain example.org www.example.org

&lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;
    ServerName example.org
    DocumentRoot htdocs/root

    SSLEngine on
&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;

&lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;
    ServerName www.example.org
    DocumentRoot htdocs/www

    SSLEngine on
&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;</pre>
</div>
            <p>
                There are two special names that you may use in this directive: 'manual'
                and 'auto'. This determines if a Managed Domain shall have exactly the 
                name list as is configured ('manual') or offer more convenience. With 'auto'
                all names of a virtual host are added to a MD. Conveniently, 'auto' is also
                the default.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDomain example.org

&lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;
    ServerName example.org
    ServerAlias www.example.org
    DocumentRoot htdocs/root

    SSLEngine on
&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;

MDomain example2.org auto

&lt;VirtualHost *:443&gt;
    ServerName example2.org
    ServerAlias www.example2.org
    ...
&lt;/VirtualHost&gt;</pre>
</div>
            <p>
                In this example, the domain 'www.example.org' is automatically added to
                the MD 'example.org'. Similarly for 'example2.org' where 'auto' is configured
                explicitly. Whenever you add more ServerAlias names to this
                virtual host, they will be added as well to the Managed Domain.
            </p><p>
                If you prefer to explicitly declare all the domain names, use 'manual' mode. 
                An error will be logged if the names do not match with the expected ones.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdomainsetsection"><span id="MDomainSetsection">&lt;MDomainSet&gt;</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdomainsetsection" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Container for directives applied to the same managed domains.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>&lt;MDomainSet <var>dns-name</var> [ <var>other-dns-name</var>... ]&gt;...&lt;/MDomainSet&gt;</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This is the directive <code class="directive"><a href="#mdomain">MDomain</a></code>
                with the added possibility to add setting just for this MD. In fact,
                you may also use "&lt;MDomain ..&gt;" as a shortcut.
            </p>
            <p>
                This allows you to configure an MD that uses another Certificate Authority,
                have other renewal requirements, etc.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;MDomain sandbox.example.org&gt;
    MDCertificateAuthority   https://someotherca.com/ACME
&lt;/MDomain&gt;</pre>
</div>
        <p>
            A common use case is to configure https: requirements separately for
            your domains.
        </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;MDomain example.org&gt;
    MDRequireHttps temporary
&lt;/MDomain&gt;</pre>
</div>
        
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdportmap"><span id="MDPortMap">MDPortMap</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdportmap" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Map external to internal ports for domain ownership verification.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDPortMap <var>map1</var> [ <var>map2</var> ]</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDPortMap http:80 https:443</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The ACME protocol provides two methods to verify domain ownership via
                HTTP: one that uses 'http:' urls (port 80) and one for 'https:' urls
                (port 443). If your server is not reachable by at least one
                of the two, ACME may only work by configuring your DNS server,
                see <code class="directive"><a href="#mdchallengedns01">MDChallengeDns01</a></code>.
            </p><p>
                On most public facing servers, 'http:' arrives on port 80 and
                'https:' on port 443. The module checks the ports your Apache server
                is listening on and assumes those are available. This means that
                when your server does not listen on port 80, it assumes that
                'http:' requests from the internet will not work.
            </p><p>
                This is a good guess, but it may be wrong. For example, your Apache
                might listen to port 80, but your firewall might block it. 'http:' 
                is only available in your intranet. So, the module will falsely assume
                that Let's Encrypt can use 'http:' challenges with your server. This 
                will then fail, because your firewall will drop those.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDPortMap http:- https:8433</pre>
</div>
            <p>
                The above example shows how you can specify that 'http:' requests from 
                the internet will never arrive. In addition it says that 'https:' requests
                will arrive on local port 8433.
            </p><p>
                This is necessary if you have port forwarding in place, your server may be
                reachable from the Internet on port 443, but the local port that httpd uses is
                another one. Your server might only listen on ports 8443 and 8000, but be reached
                on ports 443 and 80 (from the internet).
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdprivatekeys"><span id="MDPrivateKeys">MDPrivateKeys</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdprivatekeys" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Set type and size of the private keys generated.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDPrivateKeys <var>type</var> [ <var>params</var>... ]</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDPrivateKeys RSA 2048</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Defines what kind of private keys are generated for a managed domain and with
                what parameters. You can have more than one private key type configured and
                the module will obtain a certificate for each key.
            </p><p>
                For example, you may configure an RSA and an Elliptic Curve (EC) key, so
                that 2 certificates are created for a domain. On a client connection, the first
                one supported by the client will then be used.
            </p><p>
                Since EC keys and certificates are smaller, you might want to offer
                them first for all compatible (modern) clients. This can enable
                faster handshakes. Add an RSA key type to support older clients.
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDPrivateKeys secp256r1 rsa3072</pre>
</div>
            <p>
                The EC types supported depend on the CA you use. For Let's encrypt
                the supported curves include 'secp256r1' and 'secp384r1'.
            </p><p>
                Each key and certificate type is stored in its own file in the
                MD store. The key type is part of the file name with some backward
                compatible naming for RSA certificates. So you may continue sharing
                these files with other applications.
            </p><p>
                Please note that this setting only has an effect on new keys. Any existing
                private key you have remains unaffected. Also, this only affects private keys
                generated for certificates. ACME account keys are unaffected by this.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdprofile"><span id="MDProfile">MDProfile</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdprofile" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Use a specific ACME profile from the CA</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDProfile name</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.64 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This about a non-standard ACME extension by Let's Encrypt.
            </p><p>
                Lets Encrypt supports Certificate Profiles in their CA. This,
                among some other details, let's you select the lifetime of the
                certificates you get. The "classic" profile is the default and
                will keep the 90 days, the "tlsserver" profile is also 90 days
                with a max of 25 Subject Alternative Names. The "shortlived"
                profile will issue certificates with only 6 days of validity.
            </p><p>
                If you do not change your mod_md configuration, you will
                continue to get the 90 days certificates. Should you believe
                that a shorter lifetime is beneficial for you (and take the
                risk that the renewal time is way shorter),
+                you can configure the profile to use via 'MDProfile shortlived'.
           </p><p>
                The profile names are defined by the CA. If a profile you
                configure is not available, no profile will be used and
                the certificate will be issue according to what the CA
                considers default.
           </p><p>
                See <code class="directive"><a href="#mdprofilemandatory">MDProfileMandatory</a></code>
                on how to disable defaults for profiles.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdprofilemandatory"><span id="MDProfileMandatory">MDProfileMandatory</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdprofilemandatory" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Control if an MDProfile is mandatory.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDProfileMandatory on|off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDProfileMandatory off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Controls if a <code class="directive"><a href="#mdprofile">MDProfile</a></code>
                you configure is mandatory or not. When mandatory and the CA
                does not offer a configured profile, the certificate
                renewal will fail.
           </p><p>
                When not mandatory and a profile is not offered by the CA,
                renewals will be performed without specifying a profile and
                the CA will issue a certificates according to its defaults.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdrenewmode"><span id="MDRenewMode">MDRenewMode</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdrenewmode" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Controls if certificates shall be renewed.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDRenewMode always|auto|manual</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDRenewMode auto</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                In the default 'auto' mode, the module will do what makes most sense
                of each Managed Domain. For a domain without any certificates, it will
                obtain them from the Certificate Authority. 
            </p>
            <p>
                However, if you have defined an MD that is not used by any of Apache's 
                VirtualHosts, it will not bother. And for MDs with static certificate
                files (see <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcertificatefile">MDCertificateFile</a></code>), 
                it assumes that you have your own source, and will not renew them either.
            </p>
            <p>
                You can override this default in either way. If you specify 'always',
                the module will renew certificates for an MD, regardless if the
                domains are in use or if there are static files.
            </p>
            <p>
                For the opposite effect, configure 'manual' and no renewal will
                be attempted.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdrenewviaari"><span id="MDRenewViaARI">MDRenewViaARI</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdrenewviaari" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>usage of the ACME ARI extension (rfc9773).</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDRenewViaARI on|off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDRenewViaARI on</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                En-/Disable certificate renewals triggered via the ACME ARI
                extension (rfc9773). These renewals happen *in addition* to
                the mechanism controlled by <code class="directive">MDRenewWindow</code>.
           </p><p>
                ACME ARI allows an ACME CA to somewhat shape incoming renewal
                traffic. More importantly though, it can inform clients of
                urgent renewals, e.g. when a certificate or part of its chain
                has been revoked.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdrenewwindow"><span id="MDRenewWindow">MDRenewWindow</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdrenewwindow" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Control when a certificate will be renewed.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDRenewWindow <var>duration</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDRenewWindow 33%</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
            If the validity of the certificate falls below duration, mod_md
            will get a new signed certificate.
            </p><p>
            Normally, certificates are valid for around 90 days and mod_md will renew 
            them the earliest 33% of their complete lifetime before they expire (so for 
            90 days validity, 30 days before it expires). If you think this is not what 
            you need, you can specify either the exact time, as in:
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config"># 21 days before expiry
MDRenewWindow 21d 
# 30 seconds (might be close)
MDRenewWindow 30s
# 10% of the cert lifetime
MDRenewWindow 10%</pre>
</div>
            <p>When in auto drive mode, the module will check every 12 hours at least 
            what the status of the managed domains is and if it needs to do something. 
            On errors, for example when the CA is unreachable, it will initially retry 
            after some seconds. Should that continue to fail, it will back off to a 
            maximum interval of hourly checks.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdrequirehttps"><span id="MDRequireHttps">MDRequireHttps</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdrequirehttps" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Redirects http: traffic to https: for Managed Domains.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDRequireHttps off|temporary|permanent</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDRequireHttps off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>This is a convenience directive to ease http: to https: migration of 
            your Managed Domains. With:
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDRequireHttps temporary</pre>
</div>
            <p>you announce that you want all traffic via http: URLs to be redirected 
            to the https: ones, for now. This is safe and you can remove this again at
            any time.
            </p><p>
                <strong>The following has consequences: </strong>if you want client to <strong>no longer</strong> use the
             http: URLs, configure:
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Permanent (for at least half a year!)</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">MDRequireHttps permanent</pre>
</div>
            <p>This does two things:
            </p>
            <ol>
                <li>All request to the <code>http:</code> resources are redirected to the
                    same url with the <code>https:</code> scheme using the <code>301</code>
                status code. This tells clients that this is intended to be forever and
                the should update any links they have accordingly.
                </li>
                <li>All answers to <code>https:</code> requests will carry the header
                    <code>Strict-Transport-Security</code> with a life time of half a year.
                    This tells the browser that it <strong>never</strong> (for half a year) shall use <code>http:</code>
                    when talking to this domain name. Browsers will, after having seen this, refuse
                    to contact your unencrypted site. This prevents malicious middleware to
                    downgrade connections and listen/manipulate the traffic. Which is good. But
                    you cannot simply take it back again.
                </li>
            </ol>
            <p>You can achieve the same with <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html">mod_alias</a></code> and some
            <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_alias.html#redirect">Redirect</a></code> configuration,
            basically. If you do it yourself, please make sure to exclude the paths 
            /.well-known/* from your redirection, otherwise mod_md 
            might have trouble signing on new certificates.
            </p>
            <p>If you set this globally, it applies to all managed domains. If you want 
            it for a specific domain only, use:
            </p>
            <div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">&lt;MDomain xxx.yyy&gt;
  MDRequireHttps temporary
&lt;/MDomain&gt;</pre>
</div>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdretrydelay"><span id="MDRetryDelay">MDRetryDelay</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdretrydelay" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Time length for first retry, doubled on every consecutive error.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDRetryDelay <var>duration</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDRetryDelay 30s</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.54 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The amount of time to wait after an error before trying
                to renew a certificate again. This duration is doubled after
                each consecutive error with a maximum of 24 hours.
            </p>
            <p>
                It is kept separate for each certificate renewal. Meaning an error
                on one MDomain does not delay the renewals of other domains.
            </p>
            <p>
                In mod_md v2.6.1, the default delay has been increased from 5
                seconds to 30.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdretryfailover"><span id="MDRetryFailover">MDRetryFailover</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdretryfailover" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>The number of errors before a failover to another CA is triggered</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDRetryFailover <var>number</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDRetryFailover 13</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.54 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                The number of consecutive errors on renewing a certificate before
                another CA is selected. This only applies to configurations that
                have more than one <code class="directive">MDCertificateAuthority</code>
                specified.
            </p>
        
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdserverstatus"><span id="MDServerStatus">MDServerStatus</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdserverstatus" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Control if Managed Domain information is added to server-status.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDServerStatus on|off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDServerStatus on</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Apaches 'server-status' handler allows you configure a resource to monitor
                what is going on. This includes now a section listing all Managed Domains
                with the DNS names, renewal status, lifetimes and main properties.
            </p><p>
                You can switch that off using this directive.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdstapleothers"><span id="MDStapleOthers">MDStapleOthers</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdstapleothers" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable stapling for certificates not managed by mod_md.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDStapleOthers on|off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDStapleOthers on</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.42 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This setting only takes effect when <code class="directive"><a href="#mdstapling">MDStapling</a></code> is enabled. It controls 
                if <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_md.html">mod_md</a></code> should also provide stapling information for certificates 
                that are not directly controlled by it, e.g. renewed via an ACME CA.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdstapling"><span id="MDStapling">MDStapling</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdstapling" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Enable stapling for all or a particular MDomain.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDStapling on|off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDStapling off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.42 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_md.html">mod_md</a></code> offers an implementation for providing OCSP stapling information. 
                This is an alternative to the one provided by <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code>. For backward 
                compatibility, this is disabled by default.
            </p><p>
                The stapling can be switched on for all certificates on the server or 
                for an individual <code class="directive"><a href="#mdomain">MDomain</a></code>.
                This will replace any stapling configuration 
                in <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code> for these hosts. When disabled, the <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_ssl.html">mod_ssl</a></code> stapling 
                will do the work (if it is itself enabled, of course). This allows for
                a gradual shift over from one implementation to the other.
            </p><p>
                The stapling of <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_md.html">mod_md</a></code> will also work for domains where the certificates 
                are not managed by this module (see <code class="directive"><a href="#mdstapleothers">MDStapleOthers</a></code> for how to control this). 
                This allows use of the new stapling without using any ACME certificate 
                management.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdstaplingkeepresponse"><span id="MDStaplingKeepResponse">MDStaplingKeepResponse</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdstaplingkeepresponse" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Controls when old responses should be removed.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDStaplingKeepResponse <var>duration</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDStaplingKeepResponse 7d</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.42 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                This time window specifies when OCSP response data used in stapling 
                shall be removed from the store again. Response information older than 
                7 days (default) is deleted on server restart/reload. This keeps the store 
                from growing when certificates are renewed/reconfigured frequently.
            </p><p>
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdstaplingrenewwindow"><span id="MDStaplingRenewWindow">MDStaplingRenewWindow</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdstaplingrenewwindow" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Control when the stapling responses will be renewed.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDStaplingRenewWindow <var>duration</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDStaplingRenewWindow 33%</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.42 and later</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                If the validity of the OCSP response used in stapling falls below <var>duration</var>, 
                <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_md.html">mod_md</a></code> will obtain a new OCSP response.
            </p><p>
                The CA issuing a certificate commonly also operates the OCSP responder 
                service and determines how long its signed response about the validity 
                of a certificate are itself valid. The longer a response is valid, the longer 
                it can be cached which mean better overall performance for everyone. 
                The shorter the life time, the more rapidly certificate revocations
                spread to clients. Also, service reliability is a consideration.
            </p><p>
                By adjusting the stapling renew window you can control parts of this yourself. 
                If you make the renew time short (e.g. a short time before the current
                information expires), you gain maximum cache time. But a service outage
                (down for maintenance, for example) will affect you. If you renew a long
                time before expiry, updates will be made more frequent, cause more load
                on the CA server infrastructure and also more coordination between
                the child processes of your server.
            </p><p>
                The default is chosen as 33%, which means renewal is started when only 
                a third of the response lifetime is left. For a CA that issues OCSP 
                responses with lifetime of 3 days, this means 2 days of caching and 1 day 
                for renewal attempts. A service outage would have to last full 24 hours 
                to affect your domains.
            </p><p>
                Setting an absolute renew window, like `2d` (2 days), is also possible. 
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdstoredir"><span id="MDStoreDir">MDStoreDir</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdstoredir" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Path on the local file system to store the Managed Domains data.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDStoreDir <var>path</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDStoreDir md</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
</table>
            <p>
                Defines where on the local file system the Managed Domain data is stored. This is
                an absolute path or interpreted relative to the server root. The default will create
                a directory 'md' in your server root.
            </p><p>
                If you move this and have already data, be sure to move/copy the data first to
                the new location, reconfigure and then restart the server. If you reconfigure
                and restart first, the server will try to get new certificates that it thinks
                are missing.
            </p>
        
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdstorelocks"><span id="MDStoreLocks">MDStoreLocks</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdstorelocks" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Configure locking of store for updates</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDStoreLocks on|off|<var>duration</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDStoreLocks off</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Compatibility">Compatibility:</a></th><td>Available in version 2.4.55 and later</td></tr>
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            <p>
                Enable this to use a lock file on server startup when
                <code class="directive">MDStoreDir</code> is synchronized with the server
                configuration and renewed certificates are activated.
            </p><p>
                Locking is intended for setups in a cluster that have a shared
                file system for MDStoreDir. It will protect the activation of
                renewed certificates when cluster nodes are restarted/reloaded
                at the same time. Under the condition that the shared file
                 system does support file locking.
            </p><p>
                The default duration to obtain the lock is 5 seconds. If the log
                cannot be obtained, an error is logged and the server startup will
                continue. This may result in a cluster node to still use the
                previous certificate afterwards.
            </p><p>
                A higher timeout will reduce that likelihood, but may delay server
                startups/reloads in case the locks are not properly handled in
                the underlying file system. A lock should only be held by a
                httpd instance for a short duration.
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<div class="directive-section"><h2 id="mdwarnwindow"><span id="MDWarnWindow">MDWarnWindow</span> Directive <a title="Permanent link" href="#mdwarnwindow" class="permalink">&para;</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Define the time window when you want to be warned about an expiring certificate.</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>MDWarnWindow duration</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>MDWarnWindow 10%</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Experimental</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_md</td></tr>
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            <p>
                See <code class="directive"><a href="#mdrenewwindow">MDRenewWindow</a></code> for a description on
                how you can specify the time.
            </p><p>
                The modules checks the remaining lifetime of certificates and invokes
                <code class="directive"><a href="#mdmessagecmd">MDMessageCmd</a></code> when there is less than the warn
                window left. With the default, this mean 9 days for certificates from
                Let's Encrypt.
            </p><p>
                It also applies to Managed Domains with static certificate files (
                see <code class="directive"><a href="#mdcertificatefile">MDCertificateFile</a></code>).
            </p>
        
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