Enable https on a Linux system

Question

I am trying to enable HTTPS on my Linux system and it requires me to acquire an SSL cert. How do I get that?

Answer 1

Hi @hannah, you can execute the following commands to get the SSL cert:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx
sudo certbot --nginx certonly