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Following the excellent article by Erika Heidle's How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04, I setup https or SSL on robertpavlovich.design a site I'm building with a friend. From beginning to end took only 20 minutes. From my perpsective In 2017 with free and easy solutions there is no good reason not to secure your website.

Step 1 — Install the Let's Encrypt Client

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install python-certbot-apache

Step 2 — Set Up the SSL Certificate

sudo certbot --apache -d robertpavlovich.design

sudo certbot --apache -d robertpavlovich.design -d www.robertpavlovich.design

When the installation is finished, you should be able to find the generated certificate files at /etc/letsencrypt/live. You can verify the status of your SSL certificate with the following link (don’t forget to replace example.com with your base domain):

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=robertpavlovich.design&latest

Step 3 — Set Up Auto Renewal

sudo crontab -e Add this command so that cron tries to renew cert every day. 15 3 * * * /usr/bin/certbot renew --quiet

Links

• Source Erika Heidie's How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04
• Let's Encrypt