How to Install Let’s Encrypt Free SSL Certificate On Your ServerPilot Account

How to Install Let’s Encrypt Free SSL Certificate for Your Websites on Your ServerPilot Account

Bash script to generate and install Let’s Encrypt certificate for your websites on your free/paid ServerPilot account. Currently, the only easy way to add SSL to your ServerPilot-powered websites is by subscribing to the paid plan.

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How to install

• ssh to your server, sudo su to act as root
• Copy sple.sh to your /usr/local/bin folder
• Kindly check update :  sudo apt-get update

• cd /usr/local/bin && wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lesaff/serverpilot-letsencrypt/master/sple.sh
  

• Run sudo chmod +x sple.sh to make it executable

How to use

• Run sple.sh anywhere from your console as root

Why?root

This script updates/create script in the /etc/nginx-sp that requires root access

IF things go wrong

• Check /var/log/letsencrypt for detailed error messages
• ssh to your sp server as root
cd /etc/nginx-sp/vhosts.d
• List all the ssl config files
  ls *ssl*
• Delete the <appname>.ssl.conf that is causing the problem

Restart Nginx sudo service nginx-sp restart

Schedule auto renewal

Add the following to your crontab (crontab -e)

For Ubuntu 14.04

0 */12 * * * /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto renew --quiet --no-self-upgrade --post-hook "service nginx-sp reload"

For Ubuntu 16.04

0 */12 * * * letsencrypt renew && service nginx-sp reload

Final Coding

• /usr/local/bin
• sudo apt-get update
• wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lesaff/serverpilot-letsencrypt/master/sple.sh
• sudo chmod +x sple.sh
• sple.sh
• 0 */12 * * * letsencrypt renew && service nginx-sp reload

Notes

• This script assumes that you did not change your default ServerPilot installation folder
• When entering your domain names, please list the primary root domain name first
• To force HTTPS on your website, please follow instructions here
• To redirect www to non-www or non-www to www on your website, please follow instructions here
• Obey/observe the rate limits. Read the full documentation on the Let’s Encrypt website for more information.
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