Free https certification
To enable HTTPS on your website, you need to get a certificate (a type of file) from a Certificate Authority (CA). Let’s Encrypt is a CA. In order to get a certificate for your website’s domain from Let’s Encrypt, you have to demonstrate control over the domain. Let's Encrypt
Getting started with Let’s Encrypt
- Lookup site
- Using Cerbot ACME client
- Example - Apache / Ubuntu 16.04
- Install
$ 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 $ sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-apache - Get started
$ sudo certbot --apache // auto or $ sudo certbot --apache certonly // manual setting - Automating renewal
$ sudo certbot renew --dry-run or $ crontab -e 0 0 * * * /usr/bin/certbot renew --dry-run // register to cron table
- Install
- Exception/Error occurred
- Run error: “‘module’ object has no attribute ‘SSL_ST_INIT’”
$ rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/OpenSSL $ rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pyOpenSSL-0.15.1.egg-info $ sudo pip install pyopenssl
- Run error: “‘module’ object has no attribute ‘SSL_ST_INIT’”
