I have made it pretty far following the directions on the certbot website and think it would be easiest to follow through with that. I just need to figure out the webroot for darkdreamerphotography.com.
I’ve tried many different variations based on what other forums were suggesting. Here are all the ones I’ve tried:
Thanks for clarifying the steps you are following.
I believe Webroot refers to a directory, on your server, from which your web files are served.
Depending on your OS system and the software it runs (nginx, apache), this directory will exist already. For Nginx it, I believe it is /usr/share/nginx/html. Not sure about apache but you can use goolge to find out.
So what software (what webserver) is your OS system running?
Just noticed that you probably are not sshing into your server and running certbot on your local machine. See if this post is helpful.
I’m not quite sure how to tell what software it’s running. I tried the one for nginx and it didn’t work. According to another forum, the default document root for Apache is /var/www/ but I tried that and it didn’t work either.
Also, I tried following the steps from the article you sent but the terminal doesn’t seem to like the commands I’m entering. I’m simply copying and pasting but it is saying no such file or directory or command not found.
How have you been putting files on your website without knowing this information? If you wanted to put your homepage, index.html, on that website, how would you go about that currently?
a) if you can run sudo certbot only then you should have terminal access to your web server if you don't know this then you need to review what you are running certbot only in
b) looking at your OS are you running certbot on your personal laptop?
c) it looks like you have apache
Once you have SSH access which answers the question below you should be able to either install the cPanel plugin or to install certbot.
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): i don’t know
there is also a nice step by step article once you get the above sorted
Note: i suspect that you are not using the command in the link as the apache plugin should figure out what domains you have installed.
All this stuff is something that needs to be figured out before trying to ask for help or trying to issue a certificate otherwise you end up going round in circles
Thank you all for your help and guidance! After hours struggling to get Lets Encrypt Installed via the command terminal, I stumbled across another article “How to install a Let’s Encrypt SSL on a shared GoDaddy hosting account” It instructed me to go to https://zerossl.com to generate the certificate. The step-by-step instructions were great and I was able to get the free certificate and add it to my cpanel in GoDaddy.
@amr343, keep in mind that Let’s Encrypt certificates are valid for 90 days and you should repeat the same process when your cert is near its expiration date, ideally 30 days before expiration date so if you have an issue you have 30 days to solve it.
