I am trying to setup an development environment where i need LAMP stack with ssl. I created a droplet. Used one click LAMP installation and setup basic server then mapped that droplet to a subdomain (http://shopifyapp.sjranjan.com/) by creating a A record (This domain is being managed at another service).
Now i have to enable https in this setup where i did follow this link to set up Lets Encrypt SSL.
That also successfully happened and got the certificate files generated here: /etc/letsencrypt/live/shopifyapp.sjranjan.com
I also restarted the apache after this point. Now i have no clue how to proceed further how to enable https://shopifyapp.sjranjan.com/ working.
- I did add this certification details to ‘Security->Certificates->Add Certificate->Bring Your Own Cerificate’ option in digital ocean login. * I tried looking for httpd.conf file to see if i can modify any setting to enable this. This droplet has ubuntu and i could not find any such file.
Now what is it exactly i need to do to enable https working in this droplet ? I am new to all this… so kind of very confused. Someone kindly help.
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Hi there @sjranjan,
As you already have Apache installed I would recommend following the steps from this tutorial here on how to secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt rather than the stand-alone tutorial:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04
This would be the better approach as this would automatically configure your Apache service to use the new SSL by creating a virtual host for your site.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby