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Hello.

I successfully moved my website from Hostgator to DigitalOcean redirecting the domain to DO servers.
I then installed Wordpress and everything works fine.
Now I would like to add a SSL certificate to my new website. How can I do it? Will I simply need to edit the .htaccess file in order to add the “https” line?
Do I need to buy a certificate from Hostgator? as far as I can see another website I hosted on their server has the “https” but I did not buy any additional certificate (so I guess it was included).
My droplet has installed Ubuntu 18.04.

Thanks in advance for the answers.

Enrico.

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jarland January 28, 2019

Greetings!

Great question. This can be done at no cost to you, by using LetsEncrypt. The steps here are going to be a bit relative, but I’ll share with you my method for finding the steps. I Google search this formula:

Distro + Web server + LetsEncrypt

Example:

Ubuntu 18 Apache LetsEncrypt

Here are a couple of possible tutorials:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-18-04

Jarland

How To Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 18.04

by Hazel Virdó

by Kathleen Juell

In this tutorial, we will show you how to use Let's Encrypt to obtain a free SSL certificate and use it with Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04. We will also show you how to automatically renew your SSL certificate. If you're running a different web server, simply follow your web server's documentation to learn how to use the certificate with your setup.

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pangolino91 January 28, 2019

Thanks Jarland.

You already helped me once, you helped me again :).

Everything worked beautifully.

For sake of experimenting I also tried (after your first) another tutorial for another droplet. this time I used this and I also totally reccomend it.

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

In any case, thanks again!!!!

Enrico.

How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04
by Erika Heidi
This tutorial will show you how to set up a free TLS/SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt on a Ubuntu 16.04 server running Apache as web server. TLS certificates are used within web servers to encrypt the traffic between server and client, providing extra security for users accessing your application.
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pangolino91 January 28, 2019

Thanks Jarland.

You already helped me once, you helped me again :).

Everything worked beautifully.

For sake of experimenting I also tried (after your first) another tutorial for another droplet. this time I used this and I also totally reccomend it.

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

In any case, thanks again!!!!

Enrico.

How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04
by Erika Heidi
This tutorial will show you how to set up a free TLS/SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt on a Ubuntu 16.04 server running Apache as web server. TLS certificates are used within web servers to encrypt the traffic between server and client, providing extra security for users accessing your application.
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