HTTPS with Certbot

1. Install

sudo apt install certbot python3-certbot-nginx

2. Create the cert. school.bgevko.com is an example domain.

sudo certbot --nginx -d school.bgevko.com

3. Verify the renewal process works correctly.

sudo certbot renew --dry-run

4. Restart NGINX

sudo systemctl restart nginx

That’s all. Certbot will periodically renew the certificate with a cron job. You can check it with:

cat /etc/cron.d/certbot