This project helps us (Freifunk Berlin) to automate the certificate request process. In the past a user requested a certificate for our vpn service VPN03 via the mailinglist which caused a lot of noise on the mailing list and work on the admin side of the process. Today we use a webinterface for user input that lives at https://ca.berlin.freifunk.net. The user provides us with an id and e-mail and generates a certificate request in the database. After the generation of the request an admin has to execute python3 manage.py requests process on the server to create the certificate and send it to the user. To send an already existing certificate again use python3 manage.py certificates send.

See also: python3 manage.py requests --help python3 manage.py certificates --help

sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv python-pip python3-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev

Use virtualenv with:

virtualenv env -p python3
. env/bin/activate

Install dependencies with pip:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Setup the initial database

./manage.py db init
./manage.py db migrate
./manage.py db upgrade

Note that the default path for the database is in /tmp so you will lose your data when rebooting.

Run the application

python3 manage.py runserver

To change the host you can add the -h 0.0.0.0 parameter.

To change the port you can add the -p 1337 parameter.

All development should be done in Python 3.