By John Munson
Anyone here ever use the Lets Encrypt Digital Ocean feature? I have deployed a website on a Digital Ocean droplet that listens on port 80, i.e. vanilla HTTP. I would like to protect the website using HTTPS, and it seemed like this would be a simple process using DO’s Let’s Encrypt integration under the Security -> Certificates section. It was as simple as…
- Click on “Add Certificate”
- Select the domain name of my website… testingtestingmiccheck123.com
- Click on “Generate Certificate”
However, after doing this simple process, my website is still being served over HTTP. Am I doing something wrong here? Is this not actually what this feature of DO was intended to be used for?
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Hello,
Can you try running the following command and checking if your webserver is now listening on port 443 as well:
netstat -plant | grep 443
If so then you’ve correctly installed Let’s Encrypt and you would need to sort out your website http to https redirect.
If you are using Apache you could do that via your htaccess file or directly in your Vhost.
Hope that this helps! Bobby
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