>> After reading the above and the last post in the forum, it sounds like >> the requirement is: >> >> "Need an option to disable the handling of /.well-known by mod_md so >> an external ACME client can be used more easily". >> >> It seems a bit weird to load mod_md and not use it as your ACME >> client, but it's a reasonable request. > > Or better be able to handle both. If no on disk challenge then fallback to > mod_md (or the other way).
IIUC, you are saying that mod_md could decline to handle /.well-known if it receives an authentication request it wasn't anticipating (because it had not recently seen this challenge during a request Then presumably the /.well-known/whatever alias would point to somewhere the external ACME client was writing to and the server would process it "normally". Sounds reasonable to me (as an ACME/LE layman)