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How to get free SSL certificate and configure HTTPS

Juriy Bura

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

81K views9 years ago2 recommendations

SecurityCloud and DevOpsNetworking and protocolsCryptographyLinux

Juriy Bura demonstrates how to use Let's Encrypt and Certbot to obtain SSL certificates and configure Nginx for HTTPS.

In this video we'll use "Let's Encrypt" and Certbot to get free SSL certificates. We'll then configure NGINX to encrypt the traffic between your server and users. ------------------ Deploying Node playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQlWzK5tU-gDyxC1JTpyC2avvJlt3hrIh ------------------ Useful Links: DigitalOcean (free $10 credit): m.do.co/c/e79071ae6b49 Final version of config in this video: github.com/Juriy/easyio/blob/master/conf/2-https/nginx/conf.… Certbot: certbot.eff.org Let's Encrypt: letsencrypt.org/ Mozilla's SSL Config Generator: mozilla.github.io/server-side-tls/ssl-config-generator/ Mozilla's Wiki, Server Side TLS: wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS Good overview of SSL-related vulnerabilities: raymii.org/s/tutorials/Strong_SSL_Security_On_nginx.html

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What people say. Recommended for configuring Nginx with Let's Encrypt SSL certificates.

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This playlist might help with everything we've talked about so far: link to this video Specifically this video for the HTTPS nginx config part: link to this video This guy uses a LetsEncrypt free cert, but you'll probably use your AWS one, so you can probably skip to the nginx config part. He uses a config generator. You can probably do the same and examine the output, see if you can understand what it configured for you, and add the parts you need to combine it with your existing config. It's important that you don't just blindly copy things, make sure that you have some idea what you have configured ;) That's the easiest way I can think of without going down a rabbit hole reading nginx config docs and stuf…
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