In this, you’ll understand what is Let’s Encrypt, How to download and how to install the script on your server using the certbot method. So to begin let me give you short details of Let’s Encrypt SSL, It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority (CA), and it’s run for the public’s benefit. It is a free service provided by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG) backed by all major giants who are in the field of data security and privacy.
They give people the digital certificates they need in order to enable HTTPS (SSL/TLS) for websites, for free also helps you get good authority in SEO friendly in Google to get more impressions and visibility, in the most user-friendly way they can they do this because we want to create a more secure and privacy-respecting Web.
Let us began by downloading and installing the sh script I’ll explain here to do it in 2 ways.
- Apache
- Nginx
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/serverok/server-setup/master/install/letsencrypt.sh
Runs automatically to your default folder based on your server configuration.
sh ./letsencrypt.sh
OR
cd /usr/bin
Manual Method to download with and get it moved to the path you want to install/move the script.
wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
chmod a+x /usr/bin/certbot-auto
mv /usr/bin/certbot-auto /usr/bin/certbot
Till now we have downloaded Letsencrypt SSL on AWS EC2 and installed our certbot which will help us Install / Manage / Renew
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