In what way does python-certbot-nginx enable https on my site?

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I ran this command: certbot --nginx

My web server is (include version): nginx/1.12.1

The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 16.04

I’m curious how does certbot enable https. I checked nginx.conf and my site’s conf file, but it still listens port 80. However, https doed work with my site. What I mean is that, certbot works fine and helped my achieved my goal, but I want to how it worked. If it did not change nginx’s conf file, how does it enable https?

Any thoughts?

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Certbot does indeed edit nginx’s conf file. Note that it adds HTTPS support (and optionally a redirect) but does not disable port 80. So just seeing that the config file listens on port 80 doesn’t mean that Certbot didn’t edit the config file.

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Indeed. I just did not read conf file careful enough. It seems certbot includes another file (which it created ) in the original conf file. Thx

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