This post will describe you a way to enable Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate for your desired website/domain from the Plesk control panel.
What is Let’s Encrypt :-
Let’s Encrypt is a free, global Certificate Authority (CA) which will lets you secure HTTPS connections among your web server and your visitors’ web browser to preserve yourfragiledata from attacks,data tampering, and message forgery. It is completely validtill 90 days. You can renew it automatically by putting a cron (Daily, Weekly or monthly) from Scheduled Task feature.
Subsequent are the steps to enable let’s encrypt Free SSL Certificate on your domain.
- Login into Plesk Control Panel.
- Click on the Website & Domains from the left hand side column.
- Find the domain on which you want to authorize and then click on Let’s Encrypt
- Enter a genuine email id in the subject, and check the box “Include a “www” sub domain for the domain and each selected alias“, if you wish the SSL Certificate to cover the domain each with and without the “www” prefix, after that click on the install
Note: If you don’t check the include a www Box, then your certificate might be legitimate only for yourdomain.Com. If you do check the box, both domain yourdomain.Com and www.Yourdomain.Com will get secured.
5. Once the installation is finished, you will be redirected to the website hosting page where successful pop-up which will let you know that the process is completed.
If the procedure was not successful, then take a look at the domain name that you have entered is legitimate. The domain name you have entered inside the let’s encrypt request must be –
- Active and registered.
- Resolved to your web hosting service.
6. Click on the Hosting Settings.
7. Under the security panel, the following options should be selected and then click on the OK button to save it.
- SSL/TLS support
- Permanent redirect from HTTP to HTTPS.
- Let’s Encrypt Certificate
8. Now you are able to browse your website with https://without any kind of SSL Warnings message.