How to Install an SSL Certificate on Linode with Let's Encrypt

Learn how to install a free SSL certificate on a Linode VPS to enable HTTPS on your website. Specifically in this video tutorial, I'll teach you how to use Certbot to automatically install a Let's Encrypt SSL cert for your domain name using WordPress as an example.
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[@rudyleplane727]

Tony thank you so much! I was dreading the entire process but you made it so easy! Took me 20 minutes from start to finish with your help! I am subscribed, with notifications and smashed the like for this video!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Hey thank you so much Rudy :)

[@rv4u]

Thank you so much Tony - I've been working with Linode - deleted it many times coz I'm a novice. But I thank you for all your videos. I love you, Tony!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

LOL don't worry, I re-image my Linodes all the time too. You're very welcome

[@rv4u]

@@TonyTeachesTech please continue more videos and helping more people like me. More power to ur channel!

[@jackwright7014]

I did not know you can get a free SSL this easily!!! Brilliant video thank you so much. For those wondering: no you don't need to edit a config file for your domain. If you leave it out, the bot will ask you to type out the domain instead!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

So nice, right? Thanks for the tip Jack :)

[@jackwright7014]

@@TonyTeachesTech I have seen Lets Encrypt on the internet but never realised how awesome it is. So, I am donating £10/yr to them. It may not be a lot, but I don't earn a living wage yet so it's the best I can do!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@jackwright7014 Very cool of you to do that

[@1endell]

Thanks, man! I'm just trying to do this for months. I'm just learning by myself. Thanks, man. Cheers from Brazil.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Cheers!

[@elmaudo]

Thanks Tony - That was an awesome video. Helped me out so much!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad to hear it!

[@elmaudo]

@@TonyTeachesTech All your videos have been super helpful for me. I would love to see a Linode series that goes through some of the basics of ongoing system admin. How to keep the server secure, how to optimise it, have more than one domain on it, upgrade it, etc.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@elmaudo thanks for your feedback! Security and optimization videos are in the works, stay tuned :) I do have a couple videos on how to manage multiple domains on a VPS: For Apache: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oni2g3eMZ66Entk For Nginx: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmi6ZZyPoKuUhbc

[@noblesavage149]

Dude... just.... you are an hero we need

[@TonyTeachesTech]

:)

[@MrHanzTech]

muchas gracias Tony , se te entendio muy bien , eres un groxo mi brother ... me ayudaste sigue creando contenido

[@TonyTeachesTech]

De nada. No se mucho español.

[@Myektaie]

Thanks for the quick and to the point video :)

[@Joe-rs7cy]

Thanks Tony, this really helps!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Happy to help!

[@kokapeli]

Thanks Tony! I appreciate the video brother.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You bet

[@وسيمالبوحميدي]

Thanks! You helped me a lot Tony!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Happy to help!

[@sunmyke]

Thanks, this helps. I'm new to linode and would like to see more of "How To.." for linode

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Here's all my Linode videos to date kzbin.infosearch?query=linode

[@williampan2165]

Thanks Tony, this help me to solve big problem

[@TonyTeachesTech]

My pleasure William :)

[@coder236]

this is an awesome video, thank-you, thumbs up and subscribed!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Awesome, thanks for the sub!

[@coder236]

@@TonyTeachesTech no problem, i was wondering if one day you'd be able to do a tutorial on setting up a staging sub-domain sometime. i'm a mid-level dev, been in the industry about 3.5yrs but i've always found setting up DNS and stuff a little complicated/confusing, especially when it comes to having a staging and production environment on the same server, i.e. pointing a sub domain at a separate folder to the production, which i'm not even sure how to do really. thank-you once again for the awesome content though, and i'm sure you probably get a million and one requests on a daily basis.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@coder236 I do get a bunch of requests every day 🤣 and you're not the first to ask about a staging site. I've got a video scheduled for Dec 21 which walks through the process of setting up a staging site on Dreamhost with WordPress. Stay tuned for that and let me know if it meets your needs at the time. Thanks again for watching!

[@johnc5258]

big help. thanks a lot man

[@TonyTeachesTech]

No problem John!

[@FredrikPlays]

Thank you! Very good tutorial!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You are welcome! Let me know if you have any questions!

[@colew3841]

awesome video thank you very much! i got stuck with vim couldnt figure out how to get out lol but i eventually figured out i have to type ":wp" to save and exit vim

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad to hear it Cole

[@natheeshkumar]

Can you please do it for kuber nates in linode

[@ynroot]

This save my week, thanks!!!!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Great to hear!

[@jadee897]

at 8:19 I'm not getting the "Your connection is not private" page, I get an error saying "This site can’t be reached ip took too long to respond. Try: Checking the connection Checking the proxy and the firewall Running Windows Network Diagnostics ERR_TIMED_OUT" How do I correct this? Did go and update the key like I was told at 3:38 . Has this caused an issue? I tried logging in on my iphone and it works though. Should I delete my linode and the .ssh folder on my computer and just start again to fix this up? I'm very confused.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Not sure what's going on. Are you able to spin up another Linode and start from scratch?

[@amams_kaiser]

Thanks Tony.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You bet

[@lyspooner5093]

Great for a website. What I have in mind is to just install a Jitsi Linode from the Marketplace as a sub-domain of my url. Is there an easier way to do this? And if I later want to add a WordPress website separately on my main domain, should I do that first with a wildcard SSL certificate?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You can host multiple sites on the same Linode without problem. I have other videos on my channel about that as well as SSL certs. Wildcard is an option, but not necessary

[@lyspooner5093]

@@TonyTeachesTech Hi Tony, thanks. Can you tell me which config file to update for a simple Jitsi Meet server that I created just from the Marketplace? The files that you mention here don't show up on this installation, and I don't find a similar one anywhere.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@lyspooner5093 Sorry I'm not familiar with Jitsi

[@kickstarts2910]

didnt have apache, installed it now i dont have wordpress.conf file. didnt work with nginx now cant get my head around this why is it so hard

[@rey6253]

Can u use the same certificate in case u have many wordpress instances in the same server, or u have to always run the certbot command for each of them ?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You should issue a new cert for every domain

[@PrevostMedia832]

youre the best

[@kichako]

Thank you! You're my hero. c:

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@renatozoppei]

Tony, I have a Angular application running on Linode. I followed your steps and it´s perfect! Problem is that the certificate doesn´t cover backend scope and now they are having trouble to communicate. Have you ever faced this before?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I'm not sure what you mean by "backend scope"? Is this a wildcard SSL setup perhaps?

[@ThunderCrack-1]

Hi tony. please expland this turial with how it can renew the cert automatically after 90days.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Check this out kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZm9iXmvft5-Z9E

[@KamrulHasan725]

Which Screen Recorder do you use?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

QuickTime

[@RTAllenProjects]

Can you help with this message? E: Package 'python-certbot-apache' has no installation candidate

[@freedomflights2479]

Once you are done editing the configuration file how do you exit and save

[@TonyTeachesTech]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3aXkp-gpLJ1m8k

[@EKUL34]

How would I go about getting an SSL Certificate for a python socket server running on Linode?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You should still be able to use certbot to get the cert

[@EKUL34]

@@TonyTeachesTech I ended up figuring it out, thank you

[@lutpispt7476]

Hi tony, want to ask. Why my wp always got Hello World after installing? im using Linode

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Sorry, I don't know

[@abdouazizseck8838]

HELLO! Nice video but what about NGINX! THanks a lot, in advance

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You can simply swap out apache for nginx in the commands... apt-get install certbot python-certbot-nginx certbot --nginx

[@abdouazizseck8838]

@@TonyTeachesTech Exactly I did this but the problem is Hi when i put this code "certbot --nginx -d ""MyDomainName" then I have this issue Performing the following challenges: http-01 challenge for ""MyDomainName"" nginx: [emerg] "server_names_hash_bucket_size" directive is duplicate in /etc/nginx/conf.d/server_names_hash_bucket_size.conf:1 Cleaning up challenges nginx restart failed: b'' b'' Can you help Pleae!

[@abdouazizseck8838]

Even though I try certbot --nginx, I? have the same issue

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@abdouazizseck8838 I'm not familiar with this error, but it seems like this is a documented issue. Perhaps this link can help you github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/5199

[@usama_khalid]

thanks for the great video. I am new to coding (specially backend) . I am working on a website which requires lots of small images (like online stores) but linode/digital ocean's object storage has limit of 750 IOPS. can you make a video on " How to setup a CDN" to deliver images using my own servers on linode... it will be really helpful...

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes, I am planning on making a CDN video! In the meantime, can I recommend Cloudways to you? It runs on Linode/Digital Ocean/Vultr and has a built in CDN with unlimited e-commerce stores that you can deploy in 1 click kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ6rl4h7ppubars

[@usama_khalid]

@@TonyTeachesTech Thank you

[@mohammedfareed4590]

How to install a free SSL certificate on a Linode running with Debain 8 ?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Similar instructions, but see certbot.eff.org/ for specific instructions

[@KryptoKiddi]

This setup seems fluked if you have more than one domain

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You can install multiple domains with multiple ssl certs kzbin.info/www/bejne/oni2g3eMZ66Entk

[@QuantumQuest999]

How far this certbot - ssl service is trust-able ?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes Let's Encrypt is a trusted root certificate authority

[@Rashmalai_edits]

Dm you camrea quality

[@George-d2x6r]

seem to explain it for WP only. Shame.

[@flowmaintenance]

Found nothing on the wordpress.conf file