Installing an SSL certificate for NGinx on Ubuntu

Never thought that it would be that easy with a tool called Letsencrypt but basically if you want to add SSL certificate on your Nginx server all you have to do is follow the instructions here that is :



- Update / Install the following packages:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install python-certbot-nginx 

then you ask certbot to install :

sudo certbot --nginx

Note: You will be asked for a domain name , ip addresses will not be allowed

Also certificates need to be renewed , cerbot can take care of that according to documentation