Unlimited Free SSL for Any Domain

Hello Guys,

Lets Encrypt is free SSL authority which allows to create free SSL certificates for your domains. You can generated unlimited number of SSL certificates once you have installed their tool on your server. Anyone familiar with the centos command line can generate the SSL certificate on his server and can install it. Those SSL certificates are valid for 90 days with auto renew option enabled so those certificates will be auto renewed.

Lets Encrypt SSL advantages:

1. They are Free
2. Uses SHA256 algorithm
3. Auto renewal option enabled

How to generate the Lets Encrypt SSL certificate:

Server Environment:
OS: Cent OS 6.x
Control Panel: cPanel

1. Install Python 2.7

rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh https://rhel6.iuscommunity.org/ius-release.rpm
yum -y install git python27 python27-devel python27-pip python27-setuptools python27-tools python27-virtualenv --enablerepo=ius
cd /root
git clone https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt
cd /root/letsencrypt
sed -i "s|--python python2|--python python2.7|" letsencrypt-auto
./letsencrypt-auto --verbose

2. Generate SSL certificate

cd /root/letsencrypt
./letsencrypt-auto --text --agree-tos --email [email protected] certonly --renew-by-default --webroot --webroot-path /home/cPanelUser/public_html/ -d domain.com -d http://www.domain.com

3. This will create private key certificate and CA bundle files in the path

/etc/letsencrypt/live/$dom/
4. Copy those details from there and you can install it on the server

5. I have checked those certificates with SSLlab tests and those are top notch security certificates. You can even generate the wildcard SSL certificates with it.

So lets puts your all blogs on https If you have any question troubles installing this update the thread so I can help you.

Thanks are appreciated

Gimme proof OP.

What's the catch OP?

there is no catch. it is free ssl. these are the limitations --

- no wildcard, software or EV certificates. pure basic ssl.
- certs expire after 90 days, rather than a year [ or more ]. this means frequent re-issuing. there is ongoing discussion about this. an expiry monitor was just launched on http://certificatemonitor.org/
- there is a limitation of 5 certificates per domain name. some hosters providing services under 1000+ subdomains are voicing complaints about this. they mostly would like to see wildcard coming available. however, wildcard would also pose issues with free subdomain hosters such as afraid.org ... basically, no solution will please everybody. there is work in progress in this area.
- you require root access. which means owning a server, or having a webhost willing to run commands on your behalf. some webhosts have already said they will not support letsencrypt because if they did, no one would buy their certs anymore

that's the current state of affairs.

btw, a web generator can be found here https://gethttpsforfree.com/ however! even this still requires a server

Or....just use cloudflare's free ssl. . . even simpler.

whiteblackseo said:

Or....just use cloudflare's free ssl. . . even simpler.

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there is still an underlying cost involved in the sense that cloudflare itself costs money. letsencrypt has a tco (total cost of ownership) of literally us$0.00

pseudonym said:

there is still an underlying cost involved in the sense that cloudflare itself costs money. letsencrypt has a tco (total cost of ownership) of literally us$0.00

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Cloudflare itself costs $0, with a free SSL.

whiteblackseo said:

Cloudflare itself costs $0, with a free SSL.

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On CF they say the SSL won't work on older browsers unless you pay for CF subscription. Does this self-hosted cerificate work with all browsers?

Any way this will work on shared hosting?

umerjutt00 said:

Anyway this will work on shared hosting?

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You need your own server for this to work, on CF it would work on shared hosting aswell.

You will need VPS or dedicated server to generate those SSL certificates These certificates are recognized by all the browser and green padlock is also visible in the browser. I guess if you generated ssl on the another server and installed on your shared server that may work but I have not tried that myself.

oion1 said:

On CF they say the SSL won't work on older browsers unless you pay for CF subscription. Does this self-hosted cerificate work with all browsers?

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- this is why i said there is an underlying cost involved with cloudflare
- letsencrypt is not self-hosted. it is CA-recognized and browsers will show the lock

umerjutt00 said:

Any way this will work on shared hosting?

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it works on shared hosting, if your hoster will run the commands on your behalf. some hosters do this for free, others charge you some engineering hours, others flat out refuse when they see you are trying to get ssl for free [ as they are usually selling ssl at a price ]

15hajar said:

You will need VPS or dedicated server to generate those SSL certificates These certificates are recognized by all the browser and green padlock is also visible in the browser. I guess if you generated ssl on the another server and installed on your shared server that may work but I have not tried that myself.

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it works on shared, if the hoster is willing to run the commands. some of them have said they support it [ dreamhost, one swiss company, some others ] but others refuse, as it would end their own ssl business

Nice buddy, thanks for your sharing. Any other information please share it

You're wrong: you don't have unlimited certificates!
They issue a lot of certificates per domain but not unlimited. Check mooo.com subdomains as an example, i was able to get certificates before but now you get a message telling you that the limit was reached.

A funny note: letsencrypt is facing a battle in court with Comodo because they're trying to take letsencrypt name (already registered a few patents with lets encrypt words). From what i've read at thehackernews Comodo did it ignoring Lets Encrypt team requests which sucks, big company trying to take down such a beautiful project :/

Sucks that its not allowed for shared hosting.

CialisBilligInternet said:

Sucks that its not allowed for shared hosting.

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Why not?! Sure you can! You have scripts and i do believe a plugin for WHM and ISPConfig.

If your provider doesn't request certificates it's because either it's a free hosting or they suck at sysadmin. All you need is certbot tool and withing a few seconds they're issued.