Hi, I’m just a regular person with a wordpress site on shared hosting who wants to secure his website with SSL. I’m passionate about free software but have very little technical knowledge beyond basic shell commands in debian. I phoned my UK based webhost to ask about letsencrypt and after a bit of …

Unless you feel confident of managing a linux install on your own, right now, I don’t think the official letsencrypt client is right for you. As the person on the other end of the phone said, root level authority means that you have full control over the system in question, and in any sort of share…

If they allow you configure a certificate manually, for example via cPanel, and if they allow you to put files into your document root, you can run a LE client locally in manual mode and upload the generated certificates. The downside to that is that you have to repeat it every 60-90 days.

[image] jhass: The downside to that is that you have to repeat it every 60-90 days. And that's a big downside of the low certificate lifetime. I guess that the most websites, we can find on the web, are hosted on some kind of "shared hosting". Only very few websites are hosted on "root serve…

Maybe you can use an PHP/JAVA etc library that is listed under the client topic here.

Thanks for the replies. I had a look at the no- sudo script and I think I’m going to have to give https a miss for now. If this is going to help encrypt the web then an idiots guide to SSL and certificates would be useful along with some text to manage peoples expectations and advise if this is a s…

Use: https://gethttpsforfree.com You need access a Linux machine for the key generation ( use a VM in VirtualBox; but do extract your keys from there since you’ll need them in 3 months :wink: ) and you need access on you host but not root, just file access to be able to create 2 folders and 1 file …

[image] Licaon_Kter: You need access a Linux machine for the key generation Just for the records, there is no need to use a Linux VM or another Unix machine to generate the key, csr, etc., you could also use openssl in Windows using pre-compiled binaries Binaries - OpenSSLWiki Cheers, sahsa…

I guess you are right. Althought having 2 third party options there does not feel as right as a full curated distro. Maybe something like the integrated https://babun.github.io would be better, not sure how cmd handles those long command lines, while the included zsh will be fine…

@filbert , we’re hoping that hosting providers will routinely integrate Let’s Encrypt into their own infrastructure so that you can get the certificate automatically without having to run additional software. There are already people working on this kind of integration for cPanel, for example, so onc…

Thanks @schoen . I will email tsohost.co.uk with a link to this thread and see what they say. Good luck with the project.

My web hosting provider won't allow letsencrypt client to be installed

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jhass December 6, 2015, 1:46pm 5

You’re in the wrong thread, you meant to comment on Pros and cons of 90-day certificate lifetimes

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