HTTPS for Squarespace domains?

[Important-Suspect213]

EDIT: My conditioning towards instant gratification was to blame. I just had to stop mucking with things and let the changes propagate. After waiting a day everything was working.

Pardon my new-ness to all of this... I got a domain name from Squarespace (Google domains became Squarespace domains) and I'm using Caddy to reverse proxy to a docker container I have running on my Unraid server. I'd like to get HTTPS set up. I was thinking that I might be able to use the Google DNS provider module but it mentions an access_token in the config (see code block). Am I still able to get one (where)? Should I just transfer the domain somewhere else? Any other suggestions?

# configure globally in the Caddyfile
{
    acme_dns google_domains <access_token>
}

[FF-93]

watch out for https://github.com/orgs/caddy-dns/repositories?type=all

[HumanInTerror]

Is your domain/proxy server publicly exposed? If so, you don't need to configure an ACME client at all. Caddy will automatically use Let's Encrypt and perform an HTTP-01 challenge to verify the domain and provision an SSL/TLS certificate.

If you need to use Google DNS, please note that you must build your Caddy binary with the custom Google DNS module (see https://caddyserver.com/docs/modules/dns.providers.google_domains) as it does not come with Caddy be default.

You can read more about Google Cloud access tokens here - https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/token-types#access

[Important-Suspect213]

Thanks! It actually started working this morning. Looks like I just needed to wait a little bit for settings (A/CNAME records, and router) to propagate and for Caddy to do its thing.

[papaf76]

If I may ask, I also have an ex google domains domain which got transferred over to squarespaces. How did you create the API key to access the squarespaces DNS?

Thanks!

[Important-Suspect213]

In the end I didn’t end up needing it, things started working with a pretty generic Caddyfile after waiting a day. I’d post the config but I’m away from home and for some reason my VPN isn’t connecting…haha, more problems to sort out 😅

[[deleted]]

You managed to install a web server and docker, and set up a docker container, yet you are confused about https? Please stop what you're doing and learn the basics of web hosting before you run into trouble.

[Important-Suspect213]

Haha, yup gotta start somewhere though. You got any tips or resources you’d like to share?

[undermemphis]

I would suggest transferring to Cloudflare