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This setup is for a simple html static web site in a online server.
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After you have the server and domain, Install (**Debian**):
sudo apt install nginx certbot python-certbot-nginx
If it's **Ubuntu server** change python-certbot-nginx to **python3-certbot-nginx**
When everything is installed, create your website as follow
Create the file for you website, in there is where you website will live, run:
mkdir /var/www/yourdomain
Then create a simple index.html
echo "<h1>Under Constructions</h1>" >> /var/www/yourdomain/index.html
With that in place, set up your site in nginx.
Create a copy of the default configuration file or create a new file (if you create a new files skip the following command)
cp /etc/nginx/sites-avaiable/default /etc/nginx/sites-avaiable/yourdomain
Edit the new config file (i use vim)
vim /etc/nginx/sites-avaiable/yourdamin
Copy and past the following and change it to domain (this config sample is for html only)
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name your_domain www.yourdomain;
root /var/www/yourdomain;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Saved it close it. Then we need to enable the new site:
ln -s /etc/ngnx/site-avaiable/yourdomain /etc/ngnx/site-enable/
Now you need to reload/restart you nginx server
systemctl reload nginx
And just for fun (if you want it) restart nginx
systemctl restart nginx
Before you run certbot, you need to setup your domain and cnames in your domain provider. If you didn't do it, certbot will fail.
Run:
certbot --nginx
Follow the instructions, below are the output of the instructions
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log Plugins selected: Authenticator nginx, Installer nginx Enter email address (used for urgent renewal and security notices) (Enter 'c' to cancel): your@email.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Please read the Terms of Service at https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.2-November-15-2017.pdf. You must agree in order to register with the ACME server at https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (A)gree/(C)ancel: A - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Would you be willing to share your email address with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a founding partner of the Let's Encrypt project and the non-profit organization that develops Certbot? We'd like to send you email about our work encrypting the web, EFF news, campaigns, and ways to support digital freedom. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (Y)es/(N)o: N Which names would you like to activate HTTPS for? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1: yourdomain 2: www.yourdomain - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Select the appropriate numbers separated by commas and/or spaces, or leave input blank to select all options shown (Enter 'c' to cancel): 1 2 Obtaining a new certificate Performing the following challenges: http-01 challenge for yourdomain http-01 challenge for www.yourdomain Waiting for verification... Cleaning up challenges Deploying Certificate to VirtualHost /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourdomain Deploying Certificate to VirtualHost /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourdomain Please choose whether or not to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS, removing HTTP access. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1: No redirect - Make no further changes to the webserver configuration. 2: Redirect - Make all requests redirect to secure HTTPS access. Choose this for new sites, or if you're confident your site works on HTTPS. You can undo this change by editing your web server's configuration. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Select the appropriate number [1-2] then [enter] (press 'c' to cancel): 2 Redirecting all traffic on port 80 to ssl in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourdomain Redirecting all traffic on port 80 to ssl in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/yourdomain - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Congratulations! You have successfully enabled https://yourdomain, https://yourdomin, https://www.yourdomain, and https://www.yourdomain You should test your configuration at: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=yourdomain https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=yourdomain - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IMPORTANT NOTES: - Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/dkdraperyhardware.xyz/fullchain.pem Your key file has been saved at: /etc/letsencrypt/live/dkdraperyhardware.xyz/privkey.pem Your cert will expire on 2021-03-21. To obtain a new or tweaked version of this certificate in the future, simply run certbot again with the "certonly" option. To non-interactively renew *all* of your certificates, run "certbot renew" - If you like Certbot, please consider supporting our work by: Donating to ISRG / Let's Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/donate Donating to EFF: https://eff.org/donate-le
If everything goes well you won't see any error on the screen. Give it a minute to update then try in your web browser, your domain will be re-direct to https.
To renew the certificate you can run
certbot renew
Another way is to add a cronjob to do that run this command in the terminal
crontab -e
At the end of the files add:
1 1 1 * * certbot renew --quiet && systemctl reload nginx
What this does? It says run certbot renew every first of the mount. That will take care of the https in the server.
If you want to delete a certificate
certbot delete
Then just select the domain you want to delete
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