How to Properly Enable HTTPS on Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10

This tutorial is going to show you how to properly enable HTTPS on Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04/17.10. Google Chrome and Firefox have already begun marking non-encrypted web pages with password input box as being insecure. Eventually all HTTP web pages will be marked as insecure. HTTPS will become default for any website. It’s also a requirement if you want to utilize the new HTTP/2 protocol to speed up your website.

As you may probably know, Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority. The official documentation describes simple steps you can follow to enable HTTPS with Let’s Encrypt, but there’s more to it than that. If you follow the official doc, you get an A on SSL Labs test. If you follow my steps, you will get an A+. If you’ve already deployed a Let’s Encrypt certificate before, you can still follow this tutorial to renew and replace your existing certificate.

Read full tutorial here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/https-apache-letsencrypt-ubuntu16-04-17-10