<h1 id="whoooeee">Whoooeee</h1>
<p>I have been out of the game for publishing public facing websites for sometime now and was dreading the awful experience of setting up a SSL cert for my various "fun" apps. I couldn't have been more wrong, this took 5 minutes and was free. I don't have to pay anyone $100 anymore for a lock icon in a browser. Life is freaking awesome!!</p>
<h2 id="prereqs">Prereq's</h2>
<p>Your own domains working without the https. There's some other  <a target="_blank" href="https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04">tutorial</a> s on how to get this setup with nginx, but that's where this begins.</p>
<h2 id="get-to-da-meat">Get to da meat</h2>
<p>SSH into your droplet with a sudo account and let's get this show going.</p>
<pre><code>snap <span class="hljs-keyword">install</span> core; snap refresh core <span class="hljs-comment"># ensure snapd is up to date</span>
snap <span class="hljs-keyword">install</span> <span class="hljs-comment">--classic certbot #install certbot</span>
<span class="hljs-keyword">ln</span> -s /snap/<span class="hljs-keyword">bin</span>/certbot /usr/<span class="hljs-keyword">bin</span>/certbot <span class="hljs-comment"># link it</span>
certbot <span class="hljs-comment">--nginx # run it</span>
</code></pre><p>If everything's already configured correctly you just need to choose the domains you want to get a SSL cert for. Comma or space delimited or just hit enter for all of them. Being the security conscious minded <s>greedy mofo</s> I am I got all the domains secured.</p>
<h2 id="done">Done</h2>
<p>That was it. Just wow. Welcome to the future everybody.</p>


# Whoooeee
I have been out of the game for publishing public facing websites for sometime now and was dreading the awful experience of setting up a SSL cert for my various "fun" apps. I couldn't have been more wrong, this took 5 minutes and was free. I don't have to pay anyone $100 anymore for a lock icon in a browser. Life is freaking awesome!!

## Prereq's
Your own domains working without the https. There's some other  [tutorial](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-nginx-server-blocks-virtual-hosts-on-ubuntu-16-04) s on how to get this setup with nginx, but that's where this begins.

## Get to da meat
SSH into your droplet with a sudo account and let's get this show going.
```
snap install core; snap refresh core # ensure snapd is up to date
snap install --classic certbot #install certbot
ln -s /snap/bin/certbot /usr/bin/certbot # link it
certbot --nginx # run it
```
If everything's already configured correctly you just need to choose the domains you want to get a SSL cert for. Comma or space delimited or just hit enter for all of them. Being the security conscious minded <s>greedy mofo</s> I am I got all the domains secured.

## Done
That was it. Just wow. Welcome to the future everybody.


Getting a SSL cert installed on your nginx Ubuntu Digital Ocean droplet

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Getting a SSL cert installed on your nginx Ubuntu Digital Ocean droplet

Whoooeee

Prereq's

Get to da meat

Done