Installation

Manual

• Download the latest version of the program from this website and unpack the contents of the .zip archive to a folder, for example %programfiles%\simple-acme.
• Run wacs.exe (or just wacs on Linux) as an administrator/superuser. While running under a privileged context is not required for all operations, it will be necessary to set up a scheduled task (or cronjob), manage IIS bindings and handle validation requests internally, i.e. the most common use cases.
• To update from a previous version, simply unpack the contents of the archive in the same folder, overwriting all files already there.

Chocolatey

There is an official Chocolatey package available, which can be installed using choco install simple-acme and upgraded to the latest version using choco upgrade simple-acme. Note that due to the manual moderation process in use by the Chocolatey community, these versions may sometimes be older than the ones published on this site.

dotnet tool

This is an alternative method to install and update the program. While more convenient than a manual installation, it has two downsides. First it requires .NET 9.0 to be pre-installed on the system and second it makes installing plugins more cumbersome.

• Open a command prompt as an administrator (running for the local user only is not supported).
• Run dotnet tool install simple-acme ‑‑global
• Run wacs
• To update from a previous version, run dotnet tool update simple-acme ‑‑global