{"id":8804,"date":"2020-07-27T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=8804"},"modified":"2021-12-04T07:21:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:21:05","slug":"secure-your-website-lets-encrypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/secure-your-website-lets-encrypt\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Secure Your Website with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this tutorial, we will be showing you how to secure your website with HTTPS. It used to be that if you needed to serve your website through HTTPS you would need to purchase a valid SSL certificate for your website. Nowadays you can get a valid SSL certificate for your domain at no cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority (CA) providing free SSL\/TLS certificates. Check out their link here<\/a>. This guide will help you to install Let’s Encrypt client on your Linux<\/a> system and use it to issue an SSL\/TLS certificate for your domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The methods here will work for most major Linux distros but in this tutorial, we will be using Ubuntu<\/a>. We will also show you the steps and where applicable we will show you the differences when it comes to Apache<\/a> vs Nginx<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prerequisites to Secure Your Website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Before we get started you would need to have some things in place. With that in mind, we’ll assume you already have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n