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Manngo
Manngo

Reputation: 16281

Installing a letsencrypt Certificate on Centos

I am trying to understand the process of installing a letsencrypt certificate on Apache on Centos.

I have read the installation instructions, cloned the git repository, and there I’m stuck.

Has anybody had experience with this and what to do next?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 567

Answers (1)

user2779567
user2779567

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You didn't really make it clear what your error was, but I'll take a guess and say that you left off with cloning the Git repository.

From here, you'll need to run some commands with the letsencrypt-auto program that you just cloned to actually obtain a certificate and install it. Let's Encrypt and their automatic configuration feature isn't necessarily stable yet, so I recommend running the command to only obtain a certificate, then manually configure SSL yourself. Head into the directory that you cloned the Git repository to and run the following commands:

chmod +x letsencrypt-auto
./letsencrypt-auto certonly

Let's Encrypt will begin to download its dependencies and a prompt will finally appear requesting which domains you want a certificate for. Just fill it in and press enter. If all goes well, you'll get an output that looks similar to this:

 - Congratulations! Your certificate and chain have been saved at
 /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem. Your
 cert will expire on 2016-03-08. To obtain a new version of the
 certificate in the future, simply run Let's Encrypt again.

This path will differ from my path since I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. Note the path to the folder, which will hold all of the files you need. Now, head into your Apache configuration and edit the configuration file to link to the SSL certificates that you just created, restart Apache, and you should be good to go!

If you need any further instructions, let me know.

Upvotes: 1

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