Step 3: Install Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate in Nginx 9.Now that your SSL Certificate has been generated is time to configure Nginx webserver to use it. The newly SSL certificates are placed in/etc/letsencrypt/live/under a directory named after your domain name. Runls commandto list the...
Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install freeTLS/SSL certificates, enabling encrypted HTTPS on web servers. It simplifies the process by providing a software client, Certbot, that attempts to automate most (if not all) of the required ste...
Let’s Encrypt is a freecertificate authoritythat allows you to set up such protection. It is the simplest way to secure your Nginx server. In this article, you will find the simplest way to secure your Nginx server by obtaining Let’s Encrypt certificates using the Certbot software. Prerequi...
If this is your first time runningcertbot, you will be prompted to enter an email address and agree to the terms of service. After doing so,certbotwill communicate with the Let’s Encrypt server, then run a challenge to verify that you control the domain you’re requesting a certificate fo...
This will install Certbot itself and the Nginx plugin for Certbot, which is needed to run the program. The installation process will ask you about importing a GPG key. Confirm it so the installation can complete. You have now installed the Let’s Encrypt client, but before obtaining cer...
Following all the steps above, at this point we have a secured NGINX-based web server, with encryption granted by Certbot and Let’s Encrypt. This is just a basic configuration, of course, and it’s possible to use many NGINX configuration parameters for personalizing everything, but that de...
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to install Let’s Encrypt and secure Nginx web server which is using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or later. Before proceeding ahead make sure that you have root user or root enabled access to the server.
One of the preliminary and crucial steps in hardening your Nginx web server is to secure it by using an SSL certificate. The SSL certificate is a cryptographic digital certificate that encrypts traffic between your web server and the web browsers of your site’s visitors. It also forces your...
The ModSecurity-nginx connector takes the form of an Nginx module that provides a layer of communication between Nginx and ModSecurity. To begin the installation process, follow the steps outlined below: Install all the dependencies required for the build and compilation process with the following com...
Security mainly refers to minimise the risk. Change one thing may open a whole new set of problems. Read about how things work and what values are considered secure enough (and for what purposes). The only correct approach is to understand your exposure, measure and tune. + Security is imp...