{"id":77,"date":"2018-03-18T22:51:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T05:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2018-03-18T22:51:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T05:51:31","slug":"setting-up-https-was-so-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Free HTTPS Setup on EC2 with Certbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up HTTPS was very easy. It was just a matter of upgrading to Amazon Linux 2 AMI. Follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/ec2-lamp-amazon-linux-2.html\">Install a LAMP Web Server on Amazon Linux 2<\/a>\u00a0instructions. Follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/SSL-on-an-instance.html\">Configure Apache Web Server on Amazon Linux 2 to Use SSL\/TLS<\/a> instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/getting-started\/\">Let&#8217;s Encrypt<\/a> for providing their free service which will save me thousands of dollars, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\">Electronic Frontier Organization<\/a> for setting up <a href=\"https:\/\/certbot.eff.org\/\">CertBot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/certbot.eff.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-79 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/certbot.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting up HTTPS was very easy. It was just a matter of upgrading to Amazon Linux 2 AMI. Follow the Install a LAMP Web Server on Amazon Linux 2\u00a0instructions. Follow the Configure Apache Web Server on Amazon Linux 2 to Use SSL\/TLS instructions. Thank you to Let&#8217;s Encrypt for providing their free service which will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,13,18],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress","tag-aws","tag-certbot","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kineteque.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}