Free SSL certificate for your website from trusted CA

Until recently in order to get a SSL certificate from a trusted CA you had to pay a minimum of 50$ per year . Sometimes the price could be more than 1000USD per year. Try a google search for “buy SSL Certificate”

Good news!

You can get certificates from a trusted CA for FREE! You can run your websites on https into couple of minutes! Visit Let’s Encrypt website and read more about the Authority. To install the certificate is really easy and it takes 1-2 minutes. Visit Certbot website where you can get the steps to automatically install a certificate based on your server build.

After installing the certificate for your domain don’t forget to edit your .htaccess file to redirect all traffic to you https://www version:
Find the following line:
RewriteEngine On

at this point
add the following lines:

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
# First rewrite to HTTPS: without www
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
# Now, rewrite any request to use www.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule .* https://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]


All websites should move on https as it is a very big security concern. Let’s make Internet a safer place!

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