Cli commands

Nginx-LE cli tooling
Nginx-LE provides optional cli tooling to manage your Nginx-LE instance.
The cli tooling is based on dart and the DCli library.
To install the cli tooling:
(If you already have dart installed you can go straight to step 3.)
1.Install dcli install guide​
2.Restart your terminal
3.Activate Nginx-LE
pub global activate nginx_le
On linux this amounts to:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y wget ca-certificates gnupg2
wget https://github.com/noojee/dcli/releases/download/latest-linux/dcli_install -O dcli_install
chmod +x dcli_install
export PATH="$PATH":"$HOME/.pub-cache/bin":"$HOME/.dcli/bin"
./dcli_install
pub global activate nginx_le
The DCli installer also installs dart (if its not already installed).
The Nginx-LE cli exposes the following commands:
Command
Description
Comment
build
Builds the docker image.
Only required if you need to customise the code the image runs on.
config
Configures nginx-le and creates the docker container.
You must run config before you can run any other commands (except build).
start
Starts nginx-le
Starts the nginx-le docker container
restart
Restarts nginx-le
Restarts the docker container
stop
Stops nginx-le
Stops the docker container.
acquire
Acquires or renews a Lets Encrypt certificate
The method used to acquire a certificate depends on the Auth Provider selected when you ran nginx-le config. If you are using the AUTO_ACQUIRE mode then this action happens automatically.
revoke
Revokes the current Lets Encrypt certificate
Full certificate revocation. You need to run revoke/acquire if you change the type of certificate between production and staging.
cli
Attaches you to the Docker container in a bash shell.
Play inside the nginx-le docker container.
logs
Tails various logs in the container
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Example of running Nginx-LE command
nginx-le config

Prerequisites

build

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Command	Description	Comment
build	Builds the docker image.	Only required if you need to customise the code the image runs on.
config	Configures nginx-le and creates the docker container.	You must run config before you can run any other commands (except build).
start	Starts nginx-le	Starts the nginx-le docker container
restart	Restarts nginx-le	Restarts the docker container
stop	Stops nginx-le	Stops the docker container.
acquire	Acquires or renews a Lets Encrypt certificate	The method used to acquire a certificate depends on the Auth Provider selected when you ran `nginx-le config`. If you are using the AUTO_ACQUIRE mode then this action happens automatically.
revoke	Revokes the current Lets Encrypt certificate	Full certificate revocation. You need to run revoke/acquire if you change the type of certificate between production and staging.
cli	Attaches you to the Docker container in a bash shell.	Play inside the nginx-le docker container.
logs	Tails various logs in the container