Tag: certbot
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Let’s Encrypt certificate “expired” even though it’s not?
One of our servers (Ubuntu 18.04 with Nginx) is using Let’s Encrypt‘s certbot to renew its SSL certificate regularly via script. Recently, it reported in web browsers as having an expired certificate. When I ran certbot renew it showed as having the certificate set to expire months from now. Just on a lark, I rebooted…
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Enable SSL on your web server using Let’s Encrypt and Certbot
If you have a public-facing web server you manage and want to enable SSL on it (you should want to), you can generate a self-signed certificate… or you can use Let’s Encrypt as a certificate authority and generate a proper certificate. There are Certbot downloads for various Linux and Unix platforms (including macOS). If you’re…