Installing LetsEncrypt’s free SSL and auto-renewing

Installing_LetsEncrypt’s_free_SSL_and_auto-renewing.txta

I have an OwnCloud server on the Internet.  I needed a valid SSL certificate.  I found a web site that told me how to register and install a free SSL certifiacate from LetsEncrypt.  Today, I got an email saying my SSL certificate would expire in 9 days.

The following web site has instructions on how to do this for a Linux server on Amazon.  It will also work for me based on the instructions.

https://nouveauframework.org/blog/installing-letsencrypts-free-ssl-amazon-linux/

Steps to renew are as follows:

sudo su
cd /root
wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto
chmod +x certbot-auto
crontab -e
# Add the following line to crontab file:
0 1,13 * * * /root/certbot-auto renew
# Save file using <esc>:qw

Here is what the output looked like when running command interactively:

/root/certbot-auto renew
Creating virtual environment...
Installing Python packages...
Installation succeeded.
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log

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Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/jakedog.duckdns.org.conf
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Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing...
Plugins selected: Authenticator apache, Installer apache
Renewing an existing certificate
Performing the following challenges:
tls-sni-01 challenge for jakedog.duckdns.org
Waiting for verification...
Cleaning up challenges

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new certificate deployed with reload of apache server; fullchain is
/etc/letsencrypt/live/jakedog.duckdns.org/fullchain.pem
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Congratulations, all renewals succeeded. The following certs have been renewed:
  /etc/letsencrypt/live/jakedog.duckdns.org/fullchain.pem (success)
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