From 6df94bf68dff22f2dc91dac7f2d8f772de2e5793 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Eckersley <pde@eff.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 13:47:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Better webroot configuration error

Fixes: #2377
---
 letsencrypt/plugins/webroot.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/letsencrypt/plugins/webroot.py b/letsencrypt/plugins/webroot.py
index f8176417c..3f5bc6d28 100644
--- a/letsencrypt/plugins/webroot.py
+++ b/letsencrypt/plugins/webroot.py
@@ -49,8 +49,10 @@ to serve all files under specified web root ({0})."""
         path_map = self.conf("map")
 
         if not path_map:
-            raise errors.PluginError("--{0} must be set".format(
-                self.option_name("path")))
+            raise errors.PluginError(
+                "Missing parts of webroot configuration; please set either "
+                "--webroot-path and --domains, or --webroot-map. Run with "
+                " --help webroot for examples.")
         for name, path in path_map.items():
             if not os.path.isdir(path):
                 raise errors.PluginError(path + " does not exist or is not a directory")