Questions tagged [lets-encrypt]
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ECDSA certificates not impacted by Let’s Encrypt certificate chain change?
We received an email from Cloudflare about the upcoming Let’s Encrypt certificate chain change.
At some point, it states that "Additionally, this change only impacts RSA certificates. It does not ...
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Unable to get SSL certificate in mailserver separate from web hosting
I use Firebase Hosting to host my website and a VPS to host a mailserver for the same domain.
When I try to issue a certbot Let's Encrypt SSL certificate I get the following error:
Could not request ...
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LetsEncrypt certificates not automatically renewed on Windows Server
I am using LetsEncrypt certificates. When I set up my Windows Server 2016, the LetsEncrypt certificates were renewed automatically but now they run out without being renewed. I must renew them ...
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Missing SSL certificate cause unwanted redirect to another website
I have a website without SSL certificate. When opened in browser it shows error message: "Potential Security Risk Ahead" which is good but when click "accept the risk and continue" ...
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Is there an official or safe way to use a LetsEncrypt certificate for the WHM UI?
To be specific, I am talking about using a LetsEncrypt (LE) cert for WHM itself, not a domain being managed by these tools.
I'm well aware that I could install Certbot and reconfigure the underlying ...
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How to redirect from IIS to an internal server and use Let's Encrypt to validate the original URL domain?
My problem: Can't redirect from IIS to an internal server and use Let's Encrypt to validate the original URL domain.
I use IIS as a kind of reverse proxy where one site redirects to another internal ...
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"Cert authority invalid" error from Chrome on Android when viewing my website which uses Lets Encrypt
I have installed and activated open SSL (letsencrypt.org R3 version V3) on my website. Website is working fine in Desktop browsers (Chrome, Firefox....) but in Google Chrome Android, I get security ...
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How to fix a rogue DNS-IP mapping in WHM or cPanel?
I woke up this morning and started getting emails from customers of my website truckercert.com that "the site is down". But what actually happened is the SSL certificate quit working. The ...
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SSL certificate hostname does not match, but online validation says all is OK
I secured our server with Let's Enccrypt SSL certificate, which I installed with Certbot on Apache. It works great - I validated it with online SSL checkers.
However, Filezilla FTP client always shows ...
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Most cost effective option for securing 1000+ websites (SSL)
My company manages well over 1000 sites for various clients. Currently, we are paying for a Standard DV certificate for each individual site ($94.99 from GoDaddy). We are easily spending over $100k ...
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How can I migrate from a server with cPanel AutoSSL to one using Let's Encrypt without an interruption to my SSL coverage?
I've currently got a live website which is set up with it's SSL cert being provided by cPanels AutoSSL feature. I'm going to be moving my website to a VPS that is provisioned by Laravel Forge and set ...
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How do I install a wildcard SSL certificate on WHM using Let's Encrypt plugin and Cloudflare DNS?
I am using cPanel 92 on CentOS 7 and my domain.com's DNS zone is running on Cloudflare (free Cloudflare tier) and I'm having trouble getting my subdomains (of a subdomain) running over HTTPS. Security ...
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Websites not working on IOS after server move (only affecting sites with SSL)
I'm most of the way through moving from one server to another. Servers are more or less the same, newer one has a newer version of Plesk.
Everything has gone very smoothly BUT now I check on Safari or ...
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How do I renew LetsEncrypt certificates for a wildcard domain via HTTP challenge?
I have created and installed a cert for my wildcard domain *.example.com OK using a dns challenge. So far, so good.
Now I want to renew the cert using a cronjob. I will need to use the http challenge ...
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Wildcard SSL issued by Plesk not working for subdomains hosted by a third party
I've got a Plesk setup which issues Letsencrypt certificates and hosts part of my client websites. When passing the _acme-challenge and receiving a wildcard certificate / installing said certificate ...
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Why letsencrypt certificate generation not done like domain verification done by GSuite?
I have used letsencrypt's certbot for creating certs for my domains. I have to download certbot and run in my machine and it gives a string to be placed in as dns record. I have to manually add the ...
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Is letsencrypt compatible with DANE TLSA?
What is the relationship between letsencrypt and DANE TLSA?
Can or should letsencrypt be used together with DANE TLSA?
Is DANE TLSA a full replacement for letsencrypt [and any certificate authority (...
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What is the difference of certbot and certbot-auto?
I've seen many documentation of using certbot for renewing the certificates via certbot renew. There were also other documentations but with certbot-auto. I'm confused, what is the actual difference ...
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When does Squarespace renew TLS/x.509 certificates?
I have a website on Squarespace and the TLS certificate is set to expire in less than 24 hours.
Issuer: C=US, O=Let's Encrypt, CN=Let's Encrypt Authority X3
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How to Install Free Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate on GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting?
I'm posting this question here along with an answer for reference in case anyone else is wondering how to install free SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt on GoDaddy Managed WordPress plans. The ...
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Unable to see file in certain folder but can elsewhere
I am in the process of trying to verify a Let's Encrypt SSL cert on a clients Wordpress site hosted on 1and1. However, the file is apparently not found/fails to verify.
I have placed other files in ...
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Let's Encrypt certificate renewal failure: "too many failed authorizations recently"
I am running a website on my Raspberry Pi with 2 different domain names.
Installing the certificate for https:// when it became necessary was no problem. But renewing it seems impossible.
I have ...
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How to approach Let's Encrypt for 180 domain aliases
I have 180 or so websites that all run of a single MVC app.
The app runs on a domain, which is not accessible directly by the public, and each of the 180 public facing sites are set up as domain ...
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Error parsing certificate request: x509: unsupported elliptic curve from Let's Encrypt
I'm trying to obtain an EC-based X509 certificate using secp256 from Let's Encrypt. Let's Encrypt is returning an error instead of issuing the certificate:
$ letsencrypt --manual --csr ~/cryptopp-com....
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Rate limit encountered when setting up Free SSL Certificates from LetsEncrypt.org in Plesk
When I tried to add SSL to the hosting domain directly from letsencryt.org from the pre-built Plesk hosting cpanel I got the error as
SSL/TLS Certificates
Error: Could not issue a Let's Encrypt ...
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Wildcard certificate with certbot and DNS challenge
I am trying to obtain a wildcard certificate from Let's Encrypt for my web server.
Since I am using a "local" hoster, certbot has no DNS authenticator plugin for it. So I have to use the manual ...
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Setting up Let's Encrypt with CloudFlare and dynamic IP
My setup is as follows:
Dedicated server (Linux) with dynamic IP address
NO-IP domain name
domain name
When I want to access my system (server), I access my
domain, which redirects me to my NO-IP ...
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How to change challenge from tls-sni-01 to webroot for existing letsencrypt certificate?
I'm trying to renew my certificate that is due to expire. I used the apache plugin for certbot like this: sudo certbot --apache -d support.example.com.
However, when I try to renew it now it uses tls-...
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Non-www to www redirect not working in Firefox; Works in Chrome with nginx server
I've configured my website to have https with www scheme. I opted to redirect all the traffic from non-www to www, at the time of setting up LetsEncrypt SSL certificate and it works absolutely fine on ...
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Does Let's Encrypt have a link to show information about a domain like TrustSign has
In my website I have the let's encrypt logo at the footer to show that my site is secure, in reality I put the the logo there to fill an empty space. I would like to make the image a link so it can be ...
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Could not renew letsencrypt certificate error 'The manual plugin is not working'
I have obtained a certificate through let's encrypt with the following command:
sudo certbot certonly --manual -d *.domain.com --agree-tos --no-bootstrap
--manual-public-ip-logging-ok --preferred-...
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Let's Encrypt validation under cPanel getting a 404 error after www redirect
I'm having some problems getting the SSL via Let's Encrypt working on my site. I installed the certificate via a one-click installer in my cpanel. It works on my cPanel, but on the actual site it ...
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How to use rewrite rule to create exception rule for https redirection for directory ./well-known
Here is my situation:
Server A: support.example.com -> port 80 is forwarded to this server
Server B: hr.example.com
Both are running apache2.
For server B I want to use Let's encrypt. I want to ...
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Get a Lets Encrypt SSL certificate through ZeroSSL for a .ovh.net subdomain
I'm trying to set up https connection in one of my API.
I normally make requests to my API through this address: http://vps******.ovh.net:8090
I'd like to be able to make HTTPS requests.
I use the ...
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Adding LetsEncrypt to Tomcat/Apache setup with mod_jk
I have a Tomcat server running behind Apache using mod_jk (the AJP connector in Tomcat). I just tried adding SSL to this setup with LetsEncrypt, but certbot was unable to verify that I own the domain ...
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Outlook 2016 says "The target principal name is incorrect" on my site's security certificate
I currently run a Plesk VPS, with 2 Domains hosted within.
Some time ago, I had installed the 'Let's Encrypt' SSL Certificate onto my Plesk VPS. Both domains, successfully displayed the 'https' ...
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https://example.com and https://www.example.com: Should I use one or two SSL certificates?
I am in the process of enabling HTTPS on my web sites. I have a web site, let's call it example.com, which is available both with and without a www. prefix.
I can now:
request one SSL certificate ...
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Webmin: SSL certificate not trusted (webmin configured on port 10000)
I have a working installation of Webmin with plenty of working sites on https already. I'm using cerbot / letsencrypt to create certificates and it seems to work just fine.
My issue now is that ...
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Moving a custom domain google blogger blog to WordPress
The title tells what I'm trying, but here's some specific questions which I could not find answers for on the WordPress FAQ.
Just to get the order of things right. Can I just move everything to a ....
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LetsEncrypt error: "Invalid response from http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge"
Got a server running with the following: Vestacp, Nginx, Let's Encrypt, PHP-fpm, @ DigitalOcean.
I have around 10 WP sites currently running on it, and so far I have had no problems at all enabling ...
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In what path I can find the .crt file for Let's Encrypt SSL?
I'm trying to find the SSL .crt file that was installed on my Ubuntu server using Let's Encrypt.
I used this commands below for installing Let's Encrypt free SSL:
$sudo apt-get update
$sudo apt-get ...
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