Hello. I have a website on Free Web Hosting Area and I'd like to add an SSL certificate, however I dont know what Linux and software it runs on. Is there any way I could find out what Linux and software my server runs on?
Thank you.
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Is it necessary to know what Linux your server runs on? That's only usefull if you can log in to your server through SSH and have root access.
I think it would be better to determine what kind of hosting "Free Web Hosting Arena" actually offers: do you have shell (SSH) access at all? Or do you use some kind of web configuration panel to manage your website?
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I'd like to use certbot, it will allow me to have SSL, but I need to know what Linux I use, and also the software, forgot to mention that.
But can you actually use certbot with "Free Web Hosting Arena"? certbot is a command line interface application which requires shell (SSH) access to the webserver. Does "Free Web Hosting Arena" offer that at all?
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Not sure, probably not, but as I've read on the certbot website, you could do that without shell access
Where have you read that? Because I'm pretty sure that's not what is meant with whatever you've read. Maybe it needs to be written more clearly.
With the manual plugin it's indeed possible to get a certificate without shell access at your hosting providers server. However, that also means you're not running the certbot client on your hosting providers webserver, but somewhere else. E.g., your own computer.
While it's possible to have certbot run on a different host than the server of your hosting provider, do notice that for the challenge to work you do need access to your website, but that can be achieved through common methods such as FTP.
However, even if you manage to get a certificate through certbot on your own computer with aid of the manual plugin, you will need to have a way to install the certificate(s) and private key on the webserver of your hosting provider anyway. And if your hosting providers configuration panel does not offer some kind of SSL/TLS certificate installation method, you can't actually do something usefull with the certificate you (painfully) got issued.
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thats bad..
well, i looked up on my control panel and my hosting provides SSL with one condition.. quality content..
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I don't understand. "Free Web Hosting Arena" will provide SSL with the condition that your site hosts quality content? And if you don't host quality content, it won't provide SSL?
In any case, without (root) shell access or a way to actually install a certificate, you only have the options provided by your hosting provider.
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Well, I'll quote what they wrote on the Control Panel site:
SSL Certificate:
Now you can enable the secure version of your website https:// , with one condition: account must have quality web content. Requests for sites without content will be rejected!
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Well, I'm not familiair with the content of your website, but perhaps it's worth a try.
By the way, it should be no trouble for any hosting provider to provide easy and free access to Let's Encrypt certificates for all users..
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You'll find that any free web host ends up serving quite a lot of low quality spam, so all they're really saying is they'll enable https if your website appears to not be spam or empty. Unless your website actually is spam, or empty?
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