Lets Encrypt

NGINX SSL Lets Encrypt & Auto Renew Setup

Published over 6 years ago
Topic: Lets Encrypt

Updated for Ubuntu 18.04 / 16.04

SSH into the server

SSH into the server running your HTTP website as a user with sudo privileges.

Add Certbot PPA

You'll need to add the Certbot PPA to your list of repositories. To do so, run the following commands on the command line on the machine:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update

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Older setup for NGINX SSL Lets Encrypt & Auto Renew Setup

Published over 6 years ago
Topic: Lets Encrypt

Installation and Setup

sudo su - root # This has to be run as root.
cd /usr/sbin
wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
chmod a+x certbot-auto
./certbot-auto

Nginx Configuration

Add the following to your nginx server configuration block vim sites-enabled/yourdomain.com

  location ^~ /.well-known/ {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
  }

Add folder for well known mkdir -p /usr/share/nginx/html

LetsEncrypt Configuration

Create `mkdir -p /etc/...