How to Request SSL Certificates with Let's Encrypt and Certbot

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[@hristov1280]

Thanks man, helped me a lot!

[@JonBrookes]

beautifully simple straignt forward approach to letsencyrpt - thanks for sharing the video

[@ziadfawzi]

Thank you so much.

[@joovisgunawan]

Thank you bro

[@MAMSEIN021]

Thanks

[@shadyapp7416]

Nice video! Do we have to manually place the cert and key in the app server post auto renewal as it is not getting generated in the path of app server(lets say tomcat)

[@Herbertech]

I believe you would have to, yes. AFAIK Certbot will generate a new private key on renewal, so best to keep track of that. You could always include that step in a script so you don't need to bother remembering ;)

[@ori200806]

What if I don't have a domain and I dont need it but I need ssl certificate to work in xampp ‏‪ ‏‪3:05‬‏

[@moses3544]

I am getting a permissions error when I run my Nodejs,
Error: EACCES: permission denied
Have you encountered this?

[@Herbertech]

Your NodeJS probably runs with a user that doesn't have access to the certificates. I would suggest you use a reverse proxy like apache and host your nodejs app behind it. That way you don't need to change the permissions on the certificates, and since apache runs as root:root it should be able to access the certificates! 😉 However, if you are using this as a client certificate, you can always just copy the certificates to a different directory where the nodejs user has access.

[@420cureme6]

My ISP blocks port 80 How do I get around this ?

[@Herbertech]

You can also use the DNS challenge, port 53.

[@CristianCarrera]

Hi. I get the following error when install certbot: "The operation couldn’t be completed. Unable to locate a Java Runtime that supports apt."

[@Herbertech]

Been a while since you posted this, but what OS were you running this on?

[@CristianCarrera]

Windows 10@@Herbertech

[@Herbertech]

​@CristianCarrera
Are you trying to run this on Windows 10? This guide only works for Linux OS. If you're trying to run this on Linux and you get this error you might want to install Java runtime environment (JRE) and export the installation location with export JAVA_HOME=/install/path

[@CristianCarrera]

Thanks. I’ll try.

[@alimmghe]

nice and good