Certbot Tutorial: Free HTTPS in 5 Steps

Published: 22 May 2024
on channel: Madhukar Reddy
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to **enable HTTPS on your website using a free SSL certificate from Certbot and Let's Encrypt**.

HTTPS is essential for securing websites, protecting user data, and improving SEO rankings. With Certbot and Let's Encrypt, you can easily obtain and install a *free SSL certificate* and enable HTTPS in just a few steps.

In this step-by-step guide, we will cover:

• What HTTPS and SSL certificates are
• Why HTTPS is important for website security
• Installing Certbot on your server
• Obtaining a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt
• Configuring your web server to use HTTPS
• Automatically renewing SSL certificates

This tutorial is perfect for *DevOps engineers, cloud engineers, system administrators, and developers* who want to secure their websites with HTTPS.

Tools & technologies used in this tutorial:
Certbot
Let's Encrypt
Linux Server
Web Server Configuration

By the end of this video, you will be able to install a free SSL certificate and enable HTTPS on your website securely.

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This video shows how to generate SSL certificate for your website from Letsencrypt Certbot.

certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges=dns --key-type rsa --email test@test.com \
--server "https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/..." \
--agree-tos -d *.vinayreddy.shop -d vinayreddy.shop

server {
listen 80;
server_name vinayreddy.shop www.vinayreddy.shop;
return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost;
include proxy_params;
}
}

server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name vinayreddy.shop www.vinayreddy.shop;

ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/vinayreddy.shop/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/vinayreddy.shop/privkey.pem;

location / {
root /var/www/html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
}

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