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I am trying to activate my SSL Certificate on my GCP compute instance where I am running my WordPress website with nginx/1.19.1 and Ubuntu 18.04 LEMP setup, I am trying to activate the SSL using below procedure and it went well, however, the website didn’t open even in HTTP mode after complete the procedure as per below blog
There’s not that much information for the link you provided. (and i didn’t see your nginx file)
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My domain is:
I ran this command:
It produced this output:
My web server is (include version):
The operating system my web server runs on is (include version):
My hosting provider, if applicable, is:
I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know):
I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel):
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot):
2.I ran this command: meetravi007@ravi-wordpress-cloud-blog:/etc/nginx/sites-available$ sudo nginx -t
3.It produced this output:
nginx: [warn] conflicting server name “www.ravindrabhargava.com” on 0.0.0.0:80, ignored
nginx: [warn] conflicting server name “ravindrabhargava.com” on 0.0.0.0:80, ignored
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
meetravi007@ravi-wordpress-cloud-blog:/etc/nginx/sites-available$
4.My web server is (include version): NGINX
meetravi007@ravi-wordpress-cloud-blog:~$ nginx -v
nginx version: nginx/1.19.1
5.The operating system my web server runs on is (include version): Ubuntu 18.04
meetravi007@ravi-wordpress-cloud-blog:~$ uname -a
Linux ravi-wordpress-cloud-blog 5.3.0-1032-gcp #34~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 14 22:07:36 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
6.My hosting provider, if applicable, is: I am hosting by my own , using LEMP stack installed on VM running on Google cloud compute engine.
7.I can login to a root shell on my machine (yes or no, or I don’t know): Yes , using “sudo su -”
8.I’m using a control panel to manage my site (no, or provide the name and version of the control panel): I am using the command line on the server
The version of my client is (e.g. output of certbot --version or certbot-auto --version if you’re using Certbot): certbot 0.31.0 meetravi007@ravi-wordpress-cloud-blog:~ certbot --version
certbot 0.31.0
meetravi007@ravi-wordpress-cloud-blog:~
I think the reason your site can’t be opened is because your port 443 is not open or being filtered by a firewall.
First, check your GCP’s platform firewall: https://docs.bitnami.com/google/faq/administration/use-firewall/
Then, check your compute instance firewall (check iptables, firewalld or ufw)
P.S. I merged your configuration into one virtual host file: https://pastebin.com/5LVMg09i.
You might also have a duplicate virtual host configuration for your HTTP virtual host, you can run sudo nginx -T for a complete list of virtual host files currently in use and remove the duplicate for both hostnames.
After that I manage to redirect my all request to my https domain name, however, after using your config file I am still not able to activate my SSL yet, seems something still missing by me.
when I test it its perfectly fine now
meetravi007@ravi-wordpress-cloud-blog:/etc/nginx$ sudo nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
meetravi007@ravi-WordPress-cloud-blog:/etc/nginx$
However my ssl still not working, when i refresh the browser page its shows a secure connection for a millisecond then again insecure.
Don’t know what else I should correct now
I am sending my nginx.cong, /conf.d/ravindrabhargava.com.conf and /site-available/ ravindrabhargava.com.conf for your kind review, please let me know how I can adjust these files now to activate SSL.
First, make sure to change your WordPress URL to https version (on your backend), then if you are using any content builder, you might need to change individual pictures as well.
