Using Cert Bot to get a Valid SSL certificate

This guide will detail how to get a valid SSL cert using certbot on Linux operating systems

 

If in the house set the DNS on the machine to use CloudFlared or Google. DNS will not resolve properly if using the internal DNS servers

1. install the package certbot
2. navigate to the /etc/letsencrypt directory
3. sudo certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges dns -d "*.coltscomputer.services"
   1. this will pull a SSL cert from Let's Encrypt
4. add this command to the crontab of the root user 0 0 1 */2 * cd /etc/letsencrypt/ && ./certbot renew && systemctl restart apache2