SSL Certificate for redirected domain

Posted on January 28, 2019

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

Accepted Answer

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