Getting started

[dottodot]

OK So i've got it installed locally and registered an email but after that I'm finding the documentation a little unclear. In the documentation it says

letsencrypt-aws takes it's configuration via the LETSENCRYPT_AWS_CONFIG environment variable. This should be a JSON object with the following schema:

but it's not clear where this goes

[paulswail]

As someone not familiar with Python, I also struggled with getting started based on the README instructions.
It would be useful to say that to install, you need to first clone the repo and then run:

pip install -r requirements.txt

[tj]

You also need libffi-dev, libssl-dev and some other stuff installed, would be great to have those documented

[mhassanpur]

+1

I also had to install the python-dev package (Debian)

sudo apt-get install python-dev