This guide shows how to issue and automatically renew a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for an Apache website running directly on an EC2 instance with Amazon Linux 2023, without a load balancer. Example domain used in this walkthrough: example.com Prerequisites Before starting, confirm the following: The EC2 security group allows inbound traffic on ports 80 and 443. The domain’s DNS…
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This is a simplified process for installing and running certbot-auto on CentOS 6 with Python 3.6.x. I have tried several different approaches to this and this method took the least amount of effort. yum install -y centos-release-SCL yum install -y epel-release yum clean all yum install -y rh-python36 curl -o /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto http://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto chmod +x /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto scl enable rh-python36 bash certbot-auto…
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This article describes how to use certbot with Python 2.7. The assumption is that you have already installed certbot. At the bottom of this article, is a related post on how to install Python 2.7. After installing Python, install/run certbot. A shortcut, run a command within a temporary environment, like this functional example below. scl enable python27 ‘/opt/certbot-auto help’ To…
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