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@@ -232,14 +232,15 @@ served during certificate issuance. addresses are of the form `IPV4:PORT`, `[IPV6]:PORT` (where the `:PORT` suffix is optional and defaults to the HTTP port 80), or an absolute path of a UNIX-domain socket (created with mode `0666`). - Since the webserver component listens to a UNIX-domain socket by - default, it is only suitable when an external HTTP daemon is - publicly reachable and passes all ACME challenge requests to that - socket; if that's not the case, one needs to set *listen* to `[::]` - (or `0.0.0.0 [::]` when dual stack IPv4/IPv6 is disabled or - unavailable), and possibly also set *iptables* to `Yes`. Default: `/var/run/lacme.socket`. + Note: The default value is only suitable when an external HTTP + daemon is publicly reachable and passes all ACME challenge requests + to the webserver component through the UNIX-domain socket + `/var/run/lacme.socket`; if that's not the case, one needs to set + *listen* to `[::]` (or `0.0.0.0 [::]` when dual stack IPv4/IPv6 is + disabled or unavailable), and possibly also set *iptables* to `Yes`. + *challenge-directory* : Specify a non-existent directory under which an external HTTP daemon |