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Tutorial Request: Let's Encrypt™ free SSL certificate installation

Posted on December 4, 2015

Nginx

Security

Apache

DigitalOcean Articles

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By sugarhill

Since 3rd of December 2015 free SSL certificates are available for everyone at letsencrypt.org Would be nice to have a tutorial that explains the manual installation process.

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Hello

First you need to clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt
cd letsencrypt

Now we are going to create a certificate

NGINX

./letsencrypt-auto certonly --rsa-key-size 4096

Now, please follow the instructions. When it’s finished you will be able to find the certificate, chain and key at /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain

Apache

./letsencrypt-auto --apache --rsa-key-size 4096

Now, please follow the instructions. Let’s Encrypt will install the certificate automatically.

Ali Daniali

April 11, 2017

How do I go about installing Let’s Encrypt with OpenLiteSpeed?

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