Update SSL Certificates

Update SSL Certificates

by John Vincent


Posted on August 9, 2018


This is part of a series of discussions regarding Deploying to a Digital Ocean Droplet. For more details, please see Overview of johnvincent.io website

Update SSL Certificates

For details on creating the SSL certificates, please see SSL Certificates - Let’s Encrypt & Nginx

Auto Renewal

This is great when it works. Sometimes there is trouble.

cd tmp
sudo letsencrypt renew

If it works, you are all done. Else, read on.

Manual SSL Renewal

Switch to http

cd tmp
enable-http

Renew SSL certificates

encrypt-ssl

Switch to https

enable-https

Test SSL Certificates

See "Test SSL Certificates" in Configure SSL Nginx at Digital Ocean

Notice the commands:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=

Execute all of those commands.