Certify The Web

Certify The Web is a suite of tools for ACME certificate management. Products include the popular Certify Certificate Manager (Desktop UI + Service for Windows Server), Certify Management Hub (centralised cross-platform cert management and renewal monitoring web UI) and Certify Management Agent (cross platform agent for cert management and monitoring).

🏠 https://certifytheweb.com

Documentation

📝 https://docs.certifytheweb.com/

Community

🧑🏿‍💻 https://community.certifytheweb.com/

Source Code

🧑🏿‍💻 https://github.com/webprofusion/certify

Pros

• A popular choice on Windows, with hundreds of thousands of users. Certify Certificate Manager is optimised for Windows users, with built-in support for IIS and the windows certificate store.
• Certify Management Hub is a new cross platform self-hosted web tool for centralised cert management with role based security and an API. Includes multi-server management and monitoring of renewals managed by selected 3rd party cert managers.
• Registered users have access to dedicated helpdesk ticketing.
• Support for a wide range of DNS APIs (28+, including many provided via Posh-ACME).
• Support multiple auth config (e.g. mixing http and DNS validation, or using multiple DNS providers in one cert).
• Extensive range of optional Deployment Tasks to perform scripting or to deploy to Apache, nginx, Azure Key Vault etc.
• Support Linux and macOS via the Certify Management Hub and Certify Management Agent products

Cons

• Commercial users require a license after their evaluation.

Features

• HTTP domain validation.
• DNS domain validation.
• Option to combine multiple domain validation configurations when working with a single certificate.
• Option to use a different certificate authority per certificate.
• Option to use a custom Certificate Signing Request (CSR) generated from an external source.
• Supports automatic fallback to a different CA if renewals fail with default/selected CA.
• Supports ACME ARI (draft) extensions for renewal info checking.
• Supports ACME Profiles (draft) extension for certificate feature selection.
• Supports requesting certificates for IP address identifiers.