Enable SSL with Let’s Encrypt
Author: Al-mamun Sarkar
Date: 2020-11-02 12:06:12
In this lesson, I will show how how to enable SSL for free using let's encrypt. By following this lesson you will be able to able get https for your site free.
Installing certbot:
add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
apt-get update
apt-get install python3-certbot-nginx
Getting the SSL/TLS Certificate:
sudo certbot --nginx -d example.com -d www.example.com
Replace example.com with your domain name. It will ask some questions just answer the question.
SSL has been enabled for your sites.
Automatically Renew Let’s Encrypt Certificates:
Open Crontab:
crontab -e
Paste the following command to crontab.
0 12 * * * /usr/bin/certbot renew --quiet