HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP, becomes mandatory for websites/apps. HTTPS certificate used to cost money, but now it’s free thanks to Let’s Encrypt.
Enables HTTPS is very simple as well. It only takes 2 steps.
Note that this post also applies to Ubuntu and Debian.
Install certbot
certbot is the commandline tool for Let’s encript. We will Install python-certbot-nginx to get it.
sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-nginxNext simpllly run certbot with sudo. We use sudo because cert bot will download the HTTPS SSL certificate and modify Nginx config file automatically.
sudo certbot --nginxAfter answering a few questions, you are good to go. Open your website prefixed with https. You will see a lock icon before you website url.
Automatic Renew
The certificate is valid for 3 months, which is pretty short.
But don’t worry about renewing, it will automatically do this. certbot automatically add a cron job in /etc/cron.d/certbot.
Reference: https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/debianbuster-nginx
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follow the instructions here https://certbot.eff.org/instructions?ws=nginx&os=debianbuster
This is what i get:
user001@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install certbot python-certbot-nginx
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Reading state information… Done
E: Unable to locate package python-certbot-nginx