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Cant get an SSL certificate by following the guide

Posted on May 31, 2018

(Ubuntu 16.04, Wordpress one click installation)

Im trying to get an ssl certification on my website and im using this guide.

On step one, i cant complete the last bit, as i get an error.

Any tips?



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Hello,

The guide that you are following is for Cerbot and Apache, however from the error that you’ve shared, it looks like that you are using Nginx.

In this case, you should follow these steps here:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04

Regards, Bobby

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