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Pi-hole v6: Automating Let's Encrypt SSL Renewal with Cloudflare DNS

See my other guides for SSL certificates on Pi-hole v6:

Docker + Let's Encrypt
Self-Signed Certificates

Overview

Pi-hole v6 introduces changes to its web server:

Embedded Web Server – Pi-hole no longer relies on lighttpd.

FYI (July 24, 2025): I've been away since July 11, dealing with an emergency move. I'll be back working on all the amazing comments y'all have been putting down, most possibly by the first weekend of August. I appreciate all the contributions everybody has been making and all the time everybody has put to make all of our lives better.

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Last Updated On:           July 10, 2025
Last Updated Platform:     Peacock

Problem

If you use Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1), then the popular web archive archive.today (and the related sites archive.ph, archive.is, archive.li, archive.vn, archive.md, and archive.fo) will either fail to resolve, or show an infinite CAPTCHA loop. If it does resolve when you're on Cloudflare's DNS, you may have the domain locally cached.

Solution

Fix this problem by:

Configuring dnsmasq on your local DNS server to use an alternate DNS server for archive.today (see comment from @joshenders below), or
Connecting to a VPN before connecting to archive.today (only works if the VPN uses different DNS servers), or

Credits

the original script to close the popup window
https://gist.github.com/egel/b7beba6f962110596660
lots of ctypes stuff referenced here
https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui/blob/master/pyautogui/_window_win.py
alternative to DestroyWindow method that works
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38449979/

Sometimes you need to keep two upstreams in sync with eachother. For example, you might need to both push to your testing environment and your GitHub repo at the same time. In order to do this simultaneously in one git command, here's a little trick to add multiple push URLs to a single remote.

Once you have a remote set up for one of your upstreams, run these commands with:

git remote set-url --add --push [remote] [original repo URL]
git remote set-url --add --push [remote] [second repo URL]

Once set up, git remote -v should show two (push) URLs and one (fetch) URL. Something like this:

	I use the first


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	This may take 5 minutes or so, depending on your computer speed and how many text messages you have.


	Instructions:
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	Paste this into your Javavscript console, wait it stops and look at the last count.