SSL Certificate for redirected domain

January 28, 2019 350 views
Deployment WordPress Security Ubuntu 18.04
pangolino91
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pangolino91

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 MOD January 28, 2019
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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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