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SSL and Certbot issues

Here you will find everything you need to know about the common let’s encrypt errors

This article provides an overview of SSL certificates and their importance in securing websites. It explains SSL encryption, its advantages such as data security and authentication, improved search engine rankings, and protection against phishing attacks. The process of generating a self-signed SSL certificate for NGINX is outlined, along with the limitations of self-signed certificates. It introduces Certificate Authorities (CAs) that issue trusted digital certificates and emphasizes Let’s Encrypt as a free open CA integrated with Certbot for automated obtaining and renewal of SSL/TLS certificates. Instructions on installing Certbot and obtaining an SSL certificate are provided.

Using Nginx to proxy pass your site with SSL security.

In this guide we show how you can easily and safely switch from the old APT package version of Certbot to the new Snap version of Certbot so you can keep renewing your certificates without problems.

Configure Nginx to serve Multiple Websites on a Single VPS. How to issue Let’s Encrypt certificates for multiple websites (Nginx and Apache).

How to integrate your own SSL certificate in Nginx or Apache, Upgrading Let’s Encrypt Certbot to the latest version on Ubuntu, Common Certbot Errors, Cloudflare Cache and SSL, Increasing SSL security and other Let’s Encrypt related guides

In this article we describe what the Let’s Encrypt Root Certificate change means for your Android users and how you can ensure maximum compatibility until at least September 1st 2021

In this article we describe how you can integrate your own SSL certicate in Nginx or Apache on a Webdock stack.

Let’s Encrypt Certbot sometimes kicks up a fuss. In this article we document the most commonly encountered errors and how to solve them.

Learn how to issue SSL certificates for each individual site you have set up in a shared hosting / multiple website environment using one of our previous guides.

If you operate a web shop and gather payment information, you should be aware that the international security standard PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) requires you to use the newer versions of the TLS protocol (TLS 1.1 or TLS 1.2) no later than July 1st 2018, since TLS 1.0 is outdated and poses a security risk.

Webdock offers full Let’s Encrypt support on all our stacks, and we enable and force HTTPS on your server as soon as it is created. This page details some of the caveats you might run into while working with Let’s Encrypt and Certbot.