Secure Nginx server with LetsEncrypt
- 12 Jun, 2020
You need A Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) pointing to a dedicated IP address of the webserver. This needs to be configured by your DNS administrator or provider.
1 - Install Certbot in Centos 8
sudo curl -O https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto chmod 0755 /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto
2 - Configure Nginx server_name on nginx.conf
Edit nginx.conf an change the variable server_name to the same FQDN of your server for example: server_name www.mysphere.com.br;
3 - Run the certbot command:
Execute sudo /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto –nginx and follow the instructions
Test if your Nginx server using https://<server_name>