Serverpilot Let's Encrypt

Bash script to generate and install Let's Encrypt certificate for your websites on your free/paid ServerPilot account. Currently, the only easy way to add SSL to your ServerPilot-powered websites is by subscribing to the paid plan.

How to install

• ssh to your server, sudo su to act as root
• Copy sple.sh to your /usr/local/bin folder
• Run sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sple.sh to make it executable

How to use

• Run sple.sh anywhere from your console as root
• Follow the on-screen instructions

Why root?

This script updates/create script in the /etc/nginx-sp that requires root access

IF things go wrong

• Check /var/log/letsencrypt for detailed error messages
• ssh to your sp server as root
cd /etc/nginx-sp/vhosts.d
• List all the ssl config files
  ls *ssl*
• Delete the <appname>.ssl.conf that is causing problem

Restart nginx sudo service nginx-sp restart

Schedule auto renewal

Add the following to your crontab (crontab -e)

For Ubuntu 14.04

0 */12 * * * /usr/local/bin/certbot-auto renew --quiet --no-self-upgrade

For Ubuntu 16.04

0 */12 * * * letsencrypt renew

Notes

• This script assumes that you did not change your default ServerPilot installation folder
• When entering your domain names, please list the primary root domain name first
• To force HTTPS on your website, please follow instructions here
• Obey/observe the rate limits. Read the full documentation on the Let's Encrypt website for more information.