Certbot Letsencrypt Setting up standard web servers

Setup Apache

Install certbot on an apache centos 7 server

yum install httpd
systemctl enable httpd
systemctl start httpd

Setup Virtualhosts

Need to setup virtualhosts - setup httpd.conf first

# add the following to the end of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf

mkdir /etc/httpd/sites-available /etc/httpd/sites-enabled

[root@wiki-dt ~]# cat /etc/httpd/sites-available/define-technology.com.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName wiki.define-technology.com
    ServerAlias define-technology.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/wiki_error_log
    CustomLog /var/log/httpd/wiki_requests.log combined
</VirtualHost>


ln -s /etc/httpd/sites-available/define-technology.com.conf /etc/httpd/sites-enabled/define-technology.com.conf

systemctl restart httpd

Install certbot

Add certbot

yum -y install epel-release
yum -y install certbot python2-certbot-apache  mod_ssl

Run certbot

Run certbot

certbot --apache

Setup auto-renew

Make sure to auto-renew.

crontab -e
0 0,12 * * * python -c 'import random; import time; time.sleep(random.random() * 3600)' && certbot renew
# save and exit

Perform a dry run

Perform a dry run

certbot renew --dry-run