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How to Enable Let’s Encrypt for Managed WordPress or WooCommerce

Learn how to enable Let's Encrypt, a type of self-generated SSL certificate available for Nexcess Managed WordPress and Managed WooCommerce clients.
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Introduction

Let’s Encrypt is an automated certificate authority (CA) that provides a free and easy way to generate the SSL certificates required for enabling HTTPS for your website. Let’s Encrypt certificates automatically renew every 3 months.

Prerequisites

  • A Nexcess WordPress plan.
  • A publicly available domain hosted with Nexcess with DNS pointing to a Nexcess IP.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Log in to my.nexcess.net.
  2. Select the site and then go to Site Dashboard.
  3. Scroll down and then select the SSL tab in the portal.
  4. Toggle the Enable switch and click Enable in the confirmation popup.
  5. The SSL certificate status will show as installed when the Let’s Encrypt certificate has been installed for your site.
SSL Support for Pointer Domains
If you have set up Pointer domains in the portal you can also enable SSL certificates for those sub-domains as well also in the SSL tab of the portal.

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