Using Let’s Encrypt to put a free SSL certificate on your site

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Lets assume for a moment you have created a server like here

And you have setup a site like this

Then we now will want to start using an SSL certificate to secure our site.

sudo apt install -y certbot python3-certbot-apache

Really there is nothing more to the installation, we can now run it for example Apache 2

sudo certbot --apache

The first time you run this, you will first be asked to enter an email and agree to some terms.

This last one is optional, but we usually say Yes anyway.

Then we get the screen that we would get each other time

And we select the site we want to have a cert for. If that goes well, you will see some output, but most important would be

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