Didn't realize how easy it is to use Let's Encrypt in MyVestaCP! What a wonderful experience this was.

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deanhills
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I've been avoiding https for a very long time, thinking it would be too complicated to do for the free version. Not in my wildest imagination did I think it would be this easy. Completely thanks to MyVestaCP setup. Brilliant is an understatement here. In my experience anyways. :)

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox have become more and more strict with making it very difficult to navigate to http:// Websites. Usually http is OK for me as my Websites are mostly just restricted to myself, but this time round I was going to help a friend sell the contents of her flat, and so knew that http would not be an option. I had to do an SSL for the Website.

For those still struggling these are the steps I followed. Note that I am using a VPS with a different URL and host name than the one I was working with, and that URL is still on http. I was able to navigate to the URL I needed the https for and followed the following steps:

Step 1: Go into VestaCP, go into Web directory, hover mouse over edit next to the Website you want to make https and click on edit.

Step2: Scroll down the edit options and under SSL Support tick Let's Encrypt

Step3: Use Putty to restart MyVestaCP service with the following wording:

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sudo service vesta restart
Step4: Then go back to VestaCP/Web/Edit for the Website you changed to https.
Scroll down the edit options and for Apache II select default option.
Then scroll down to edit option for nginx and change to force-https

The above last steps will force the URL to show only https and not both http and https.

@dpeca Just want to thank you again for your excellent management of MyVestaCP. All of your effort is much appreciated! 8-)
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