![]() ![]() Once installed, you create your certificate by running the following command: certbot certonly -manual -d Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot ![]() Sudo apt-get install software-properties-common Log into your EC2 instance via SSH and install certbot (LetEncrypt’s certificates agent): sudo apt-get update If you don’t know any domain registrars, I would suggest GoDaddy – even though their UI looks terrible, they are the most popular in the field. ![]() So, go to any domain registrar you want and get a domain, then set an A record for it, which will point to your EC2 instance’s IP address. “ Why? Because they will change when you restart your instance only the IP remains the same. 1) Register a domain and point to EC2įirst of all, you cannot issue a certificate based on EC2 ephemeral domains (i.e. I promise to write about the automatic renewal process too, as soon as I figure it out Here is how to automate everything. Tom & Jerry - Sleepy Time, by William Hanna and Joseph BarberaĪs the title says, I chose Let’s Encrypt as my CA, because they areĪlready quite big, trusted by the community and are offering free certificates.Įven though Let’s Encrypt offers an automatic renewal process, note that this guide is for the manual flow, meaning that the certificate won’t be automatically renewed, you’ll have to do it If you find yourself in the same sitiuation, this guide might help you (needless to say, do not rely on this guide if you have no clue what you’re doing or you’re trying to set up some important stuff for your company). JavaEE application which is running on AWS EC2 up there, somewhere. I wanted a quick and, if possible, free solution for my Besides, if some web-page is loaded over HTTPS, no HTTP endpoint can be calledįrom it, the browser just won’t allow it. Naturally, I realized that if I want to expose a search service, I ought to do it I would say “noob”, but it’s not entirely true: I do know that XSSĪnd CSRF are bad things (and how to avoid them), as well as the fact that tremendous efforts are being done constantly, to spread the use of HTTPS. I’ll say it right off the bat: I’m rather novice when it comes to cyber security. ![]()
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