acme.sh

How to connect acme.sh to labcerts.net

Follow the below steps to connect acme.sh against labcerts.net.

Please log in to the labcerts.net portal and get your External Account Binding Key ID and HMAC.

Register account and request certificate

The following command just requests a new certificate. It doesn’t install it to any web server.

Step 1

./acme.sh --issue -d server.example.com --server https://labcerts.net/acme/main-dns/directory --eab-kid <EAB KEY ID> --eab-hmac-key <EAB KEY> --accountemail <YOUR CONTACT EMAIL> --dns --yes-I-know-dns-manual-mode-enough-go-ahead-please --keylength 2048

Step 2

After successful execution of the first step run below command to trigger certificate download.

./acme.sh --renew -d server.example.com --yes-I-know-dns-manual-mode-enough-go-ahead-please
Last modified September 19, 2026: adding acme.sh usage instructions (4e4ed9e)