From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
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Get started with Let's Encrypt
From the course: SSL Certificates for Web Developers
Get started with Let's Encrypt
- [Instructor] In this chapter, we will learn to install SSL certificates using Let's Encrypt. I'm demonstrating Let's Encrypt first because this is the option that I use the most and it's the option that I believe will fit most web developers' needs the best. The Let's Encrypt website is going to be letsencrypt.org, and on the homepage there should be a large link or button that says, "Get Started." That link will take you to the Getting Started page. This page explains that they issue certificates through an automated API tool that's based on the ACME protocol. And they also say that you'll need an ACME client in order to interact with it. ACME is short for Automatic Certificate Management Environment. Note this sentence down here. "The first question to answer is, will my hosting provider get and manage the certificate, or do I need to run the ACME client myself?" We're going to focus primarily on doing it ourselves. In this section below where it talks about doing it for yourself,…
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