Step 1: Enter sslforfree Enter the domain name and select next
Figure 1: Enter domain
Step 2: Choose 3 months for free ssl and choose next
Figure 2: Choose a time
Step 3: Go to the page csrgenerator Enter the necessary information to generate the key and csr
Figure 3: Generate key and csr
Step 4: Paste csr in to generate ssl and choose next step
Figure 4: Paste CSR
Step 5: Choose the next step
Figure 5: choose next
Step 6: Choose ssl authentication type (here I choose dns to create a CNAME record on the domain)
Figure 6: Choosing an authentication type
Step 7: Go to the domain management section to create records
Figure 7: Creating a record
Step 8: After creating the record, click validate domain
Figure 8: Authentication
Step 9: After the authentication is complete, download the ssl . installation file
Figure 9: download the installation file
Step 10: Install the necessary libraries with the command
yum install yum-utils -y
Figure 10: Installation command
Step 11: Install nginx using the command
yum install nginx -y
Figure 11: The nginx . install command
Step 12 : Turn on nginx running at server start up , run nginx , check nginx running with the commands
systemctl enablenginx
systemctl start nginx
systemctl status nginx
Figure 12: Running nginx
Step 13: Go to the website to check
Figure 13: Check nginx web is running
Step 14: Command to file conf
Vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/vdata.cf.conf
Figure 14: Go to the config file
Step 15: add to the conf . file
server{
listen 80;
server_name www.vdata.cf vdata.cf;
access_log /home/vdata.cf/logs/access.log;
error_log /home/vdata.cf/logs/.error.log;
root /home/vdata.cf/public_html;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
Figure 15: Adding commands
Step 16: create the file, give permissions and run nginx again with the command
mkdir -p /home/domain/public_html
mkdir -p /home/domain/logs
chown -R nginx:nginx /home/domain
systemctl reload nginx
Figure 16: Commands to create directories, permissions, and reload nginx
Step 17: Create a web file and add text to the file
touch /home/domain/public_html/index.html
echo text >> /home/domain/public_html/index.html
Figure 17: Command to create index file and insert text
Step 18: Create ssl folder and copy ssl file
sudo mkdir /etc/nginx/ssl
Figure 18: ssl . directory command
Step 19: enter the conf file with the command
vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
Figure 19: Command to enter the conf . file
Step 20: Add to the conf . file
server {
listen 80;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443;
server_name domain;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/cert.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/cert.key;
ssl on;
ssl_session_cache builtin:1000 shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!CAMELLIA:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
}
Figure 20: Commands in the conf . file
Step 21: Restart nginx service with command
service nginx restart
Figure 21: The command restart nginx
Step 22: Then go to https://domain check
Figure 21: Checking existing ssl
Conclusion
So we have just completed the steps to install free ssl on nginx here we can install ssl for our server for free, also you can refer to the bkns ssl package to stabilize your website
Thank you for reading this article!
Baby Snake
