Hello! I deploy small sites for webcomic artists at Hiveworks and some of our artists use their own hosts. In one case we have a comic called White Noise that uses a host called A Small Orange . When the artist asked them directly they were told that to get a Let's Encrypt certificate manually and th…

Welcome to the community @hivekevin You generally have a good understanding of the basics. Thanks for the thoughtful explanation. Some additional info that may be helpful. I apologize if I am covering old ground. Yes, you need to use a client to create a cert but Certbot is just one of these. A…

Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community, Kevin :slightly_smiling_face: This should help: [image] CertSage ACME client (version 1.2.0) - easy webpage interface, optimized for cPanel, no commands to type, root not required Client dev …

[image] hivekevin: Cpanel 70.0.69 If the cPanel doesn't have a "get an SSL cert" option, you will be required to update it manually. [that is a very bad position to be in] I would suggest opting for the most automated choice. In this case, it would be for you to: learn (2 minutes) how t…

Thank you all very, very much. I mostly fiddle with frontend so I'm very grateful for all this information. And wow @griffin CertSage did exactly what I needed! I generated a cert and added it inside their cpanel. I still want to try and talk to their host in hopes that they'll integrate Let's Encr…

[image] hivekevin: I still want to try and talk to their host in hopes that they'll integrate Let's Encrypt more directly so this artist doesn't have to manually generate certs every 90 days. So I'm going to show them this wonderful thread, the links you've all shared with me, and the incredible…

Aw, thanks Peter! I'm so glad that you still remember my efforts after all this time. In fact, one of the reasons I've come back to the forums is that I'm attempting to remember how I phrased such a "Hey, your site doesn't have a TLS and if you don't know how to get one, you can get one from LE" ema…

[image] hivekevin: any advice on how to communicate with hosts First off, welcome to the community and thank you for being the kind of person who wants to help spread the word. Even if using LE to generate certs for their customers might not be the way the host you're speaking about ends up g…

Manual Cert Creation: asmallorange.com

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griffin November 28, 2021, 6:15am 3

Welcome to the Let's Encrypt Community, Kevin

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Manual Cert Creation: asmallorange.com

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