Obtain a certificate without changing nginx config
Uses the nginx plugin only to pass the HTTP-01 challenge, then saves the certificate to /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com without touching your server config. You wire the cert paths into the vhost yourself. Use --nginx without certonly to have certbot edit the config for you.
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