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Created June 20, 2018 23:04 — forked from cecilemuller/letsencrypt_2020.md
How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SSL rating)

How to setup Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 18.04 (including IPv6, HTTP/2 and A+ SLL rating)


Virtual hosts

Let's say you want to host domains first.com and second.com.

Create folders for their files:

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tommmlij / le2018.md
Created June 20, 2018 23:04 — forked from someburner/le2018.md
Let's Encrypt + wildcards for Nginx (Ubuntu 17.10, IPv6, HTTP/2, Proxy-Pass, SLL Rating=A)

Let's Encrypt for Nginx on Ubuntu 17.10, 18.04 with wildcards

Guide info:

  • we're setting up mydomain.com, *.mydomain.com
  • HTML is served from /var/www/mydomain
  • Challenges are served from /var/www/letsencrypt.
  • As of this writing, SSL Labs gives it an A+
  • Took info from here and here on wilcard certs.

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