General

This plugin automates the process of completing a dns-01 challenge by creating, and subsequently removing, TXT records using the (XML-RPC-based) namecheap.com API.

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Presequence

Getting API access

Namecheap has certain requirements for activation to prevent system abuse. In order to have API enabled for your account, you should meet one of the following requirements:

• have at least 20 domains under your account;
• have at least $50 on your account balance;
• have at least $50 spent within the last 2 years.

Credentials

Use of this plugin requires a configuration file containing Namecheap API credentials, obtained from your Namecheap account's API Managenment page.

# Namecheap API credentials used by Certbot
dns_namecheap_username = User
dns_namecheap_api_key = Token

The path to this file can be provided by using the --dns-namecheap-credentials command-line argument.

Python

• If you know what you're doing install the plugin into the same python environment like certbot. In any other case follow the Docker approach above:

git clone https://github.com/prowald/certbot-dns-namecheap.git
pip install certbot-dns-namecheap/

• Check that certbot discovers the plugin:

certbot plugins

• Now run the command:

certbot certonly \
  -a certbot-dns-namecheap:dns-namecheap \
  --dns-namecheap-credentials ~/.secrets/certbot/namecheap.ini \
  --agree-tos \
  -email "your@mail.com" \
  -d example.com \
  --test-cert

• After a successful run, remove the last parameter --test-cert which enabled staging server and run again.