Ubuntu Nginx Ssl
Install LetsEncrypt SSL for Faveo on Ubuntu 16.04,18.04 and 20.04 Running Nginx Web Server
Introduction
This document will list on how to install LetsEncrypt SSL on Ubuntu Running Nginx Web Server
PS : Please replace example.com with your valid domain name which is mapped with your server
We will install following dependencies in order to make LetsEncrypt SSL work:
- python-certbot-nginx
Downloading the LetsEncrypt client for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04.
apt install python-certbot-nginx
Downloading the LetsEncrypt client for Ubuntu 20.04
apt install python3-certbot-nginx
Setting up the SSL certificate
Certbot will handle the SSL certificate management quite easily, it will generate a new certificate for provided domain as a parameter.
In this case, example.com will be used as the domain for which the certificate will be issued:
certbot --nginx -d example.com
If you want to generate SSL for multiple domains or subdomains, please run this command:
certbot --nginx -d example.com -d www.example.com
PS : IMPORTANT! The first domain should be your base domain, in this sample it’s example.com
Setting up auto renewal of the certificate
Create new cron job for automatic renewal of SSL
This job can be safely scheduled to run every Monday at midnight:
Create a new /etc/cron.d/faveo-ssl
file with:
echo "45 2 * * 6 /etc/letsencrypt/ && ./certbot-auto renew && /etc/init.d/nginx restart " | sudo tee /etc/cron.d/faveo-ssl