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Hi guys!

I'm a bit...frustrated with the inconsistencies of duckdns.org. Don't take me wrong, I seriously appreciate the easiness and the free service they have provided over the years. But I'm considering to have a second account with FreeDNS. How would I add it to my servers? The main one is a nginx server with certbot, that serves the current myserver1, myserver2, myserver3.mydomain.duckdns.org urls. Once registered mydomain.afraid.org, what changes should I do to make nginx serve also the new myserver1.mydomain.afraid.org and so on?

Thanks!

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[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Pretty much, add the new domain to certbot, then create a new server directive with the new name and certificate paths. I would probably just copy and paste the existing one for your current domain, then just change the domain. SNI will then select the right certificate for you.

You can set certbot to create a single certificate with both domains, but tbh the above is just simpler to setup and maintain.