Generating Certificate: (CRT) & Private Key (KEY) for my website from my local machine

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My hosting provider is: Namecheap

I’m using a control panel to manage my site. They don’t have any plugins to use Let’s encrypt. So I decided to generate CRT and Key files on my local machine by installing Certbot. And paste both on the following fields.

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Please suggest me the best way. Or is it possible to generate from my local machine? I’m using Ubuntu 16.04.

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Hi @RenjithVR4

yes, this is possible. Use something like

certbot certonly --manual --preferred-challenges http -d yourdomain.com -d www.yourdomain.com

Then certbot creates a file per domain name you have to transfer to your webserver. In the directory

/.well-known/acme-challenge

so Letsencrypt is able to validate this file via

http://example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/file-for-the-example.com
http://www.example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/file-for-the-www.example.com

If that works, Certbot creates a Certificate request and can download the certificate. Then you can copy both files in your menu.

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Thank you. Now I need to write a htaccess rule to strict https redirection. But I have found some issues.
If we are using https, the menu is not visible. I don’t know why this is happening!!!

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https://www.whynopadlock.com/ may help you to understand what the problem is.

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Happy to hear that it works.

If you want to check your redirects, my (new) profile link may be helpful. It's a redirect check http + https + www + non-www.