For getting a free SSL certificate you need SSH access to your server where you installed your application code.
Then follow commands and articles which will guide you to install the necessary application.
https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/centosrhel7-apache
After installing certbot to your machine. you need to run following command to generate SSL certificate.
certbot --apache certonly --cert-name purabtech.com -d purabtech.in
While running certbot command I got following error:
[root@vps147238 letsencrypt]# certbot --apache certonly --cert-name purabtech.com -d purabtech.in
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Enter email address (used for urgent renewal and security notices) (Enter 'c' to
cancel): purab@test.in
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
An unexpected error occurred:
KeyError: 'Directory field not found'
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.
I am using centos 7.
Solution for this is run following command:
yum install python-certbot-apache -t stretch-backports
It solved my issue.
[root@vps147238 letsencrypt]# certbot --apache certonly --cert-name purabtech.com -d purabtech.in
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org
Requesting a certificate for purabtech.in
Performing the following challenges:
http-01 challenge for purabtech.in
Waiting for verification…
Cleaning up challenges
While running certonly command I got following error:[root@vps147238 letsencrypt]# certbot --apache certonly --cert-name purabtech.com -d purabtech.in
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): acme-v01.api.letsencrypt.org
An unexpected error occurred:
ConnectionError: (‘Connection aborted.’, gaierror(-2, ‘Name or service not known’))
Please see the logfiles in /var/log/letsencrypt for more details.
I solved this issue by doing following:
$vi /etc/letsencrypt/cli.ini
Put following code in thatserver = https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
It solved my problem…
