How to Get A Free SSL Certificate and How to Install It
SSL Certificates Should Be Free For Everyone
Let's Encrypt and SSL For Free are two of the most famous free SSL services out there, with your new Amazon EC2 Bitnami Wordpress virtual machine, you now need an SSL Certificate. Get your free certificate at SSL4Free.com, install it like a boss the hardway using the SSH command line. In our knowledge base story regarding 31 Tips for Your First Business Website, our advice is to install an SSL Certificate immediately. Amazon EC2 Bitnami Wordpress is another great way to get a free website, free of hosting charges. We have a list of free hosting options here. You must run it on the free tier.Where is Wordpress located
Its right here: /home/bitnami/apps/wordpress/htdocsHow to Install Your Free SSL Certificate on Amazon/Bitnami WordPress
FYI: Bitnami Wordpress on Amazon EC2 uses Ubuntu 16.04Here's how to manually install a free LetsEncrypt ssl certificate
Go here and register for a free account
https://www.sslforfree.com/certificates
Add the ACME challenge TXT records to your domain DNS as instructed.
Logon to your EC2 machine using SSH, then change directory to: /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/ then you will find the SSL certificate files. in this directory: /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/ you will find server.crt and server.key.
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| This directory holds the SSL cert and private key files |
The use sudo and vim to copy + paste in the server certificate and the private key file. Insert the certificate and key into these files, the server.csr is a request file.
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| Use vim with sudo to edit |
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| Then restart the services |
Stop and Start the services
/etc/init.d/bitnami stop
/etc/init.d/bitnami start
root@ip-172-30-0-99:/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami# ll /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/
total 316
drwxr-xr-x 6 bitnami root 4096 Nov 13 07:09 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Aug 15 10:43 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 bitnami root 4096 Nov 13 07:09 bitnami/
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 289 Aug 15 10:43 deflate.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 bitnami root 4096 Aug 15 10:40 extra/
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 20192 Nov 13 06:34 httpd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 13077 Jul 30 15:17 magic
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 60847 Jul 30 15:17 mime.types
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 7413 Aug 2 2012 modsecurity.conf
drwxr-xr-x 3 bitnami root 4096 Aug 15 10:40 original/
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 17447 Aug 15 10:43 pagespeed.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 141034 Aug 15 10:40 pagespeed_libraries.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 199 Aug 15 10:41 php-fpm-apache.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 1834 Nov 12 03:50 privkey.pem
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 13 07:05 saved.d/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1968 Nov 13 07:06 server.crt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 Nov 12 03:50 server.csr
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1704 Nov 13 07:06 server.key
-rw-r--r-- 1 bitnami root 203 Aug 15 10:42 ssi.conf
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