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Arshan Nawaz
Arshan Nawaz

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How to Enable free SSL in Your Domain Hosted on Remote Server or VPS ( only on domain if you have, not in server_ip )

Install Certbot and it’s Nginx plugin

sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
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Verify Web Server Ports are Open and Allowed through Firewall

sudo ufw status verbose
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Obtain an SSL certificate

sudo certbot --nginx -d your_domain.com -d www.your_domain.com -d api.your_domain.com -d admin.your_domain.com -d www.admin.your_domain.com
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Check Status of Certbot

sudo systemctl status certbot.timer
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Dry Run SSL Renewal

sudo certbot renew --dry-run
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