BIGIQ & Letsencrypt

So it seems like the BIGIQ doesn't actually do any magic ,, it talk to the lets encrypt servers

it utilised an API interface into a back end.

so for any one googling to here.

I have my VS and I have a backend pool - nginx on rhel

for location /.well-known/acme-challenge/

I send to the nginx pool

on nginx i have this

 location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {

  root   /var/www/html/uatwww.yieldbroker.com;

  index   index.html index.htm index.php;

  #

  add_header Last-Modified $date_gmt;

  add_header Cache-Control 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=0';

  if_modified_since off;

  expires off;

  etag off;

  location /.well-known/acme-challenge/api {

   #index   index.html index.htm index.php;

   #

   perl f5acme::handler;

  }

  #

 }

and the perl code is this

package f5acme;

#

# this is to be the end point

use nginx;

use JSON::Parse 'parse_json','assert_valid_json';

sub handler {

 my $r = shift;

 if ($r->request_method ne "POST") {

  return DECLINED;

 }

 if ($r->has_request_body(\&post)) {

  return OK;

 }

 return HTTP_BAD_REQUEST;

}

sub post {

 my $r = shift;

 $r->send_http_header;

 eval {

  assert_valid_json ($r->request_body);

 };

 if ($@){

  $r->print("Your JSON was invalid: $@\n");

  $r->status(406);

  return;

 }

 my $js = parse_json ($r->request_body);

 my $fname="/var/www/html/uatwww.yieldbroker.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/".$js->{'challenges'}[0]{'fileName'};

 unless ( open FILE, '>'.$fname ){

  $r->print("unable to create $fname\n");

  $r->status(406);

  return;

 }

seems to work , try at your own risk :)