How to Install an SSL Certificate in DirectAdmin | SSL Let’s encrypt

How to Install an SSL Certificate in DirectAdmin SSL Letsencrypt: SSL certificate is mandatory to set to the Direct Admin control panel to access the control panel insecure way.

Hence SSL certificate has to be installed on the hostname of the server.

Free and a valid SSL certificate is issued by Let’s Encrypt.

How to Install an SSL Certificate in DirectAdmin?

SSH to the server and type below command:

# cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts # ./letsencrypt.sh request_single server.rajesh.com 4096  server.rajesh.com is the hostname
Setting up certificate for a hostname: server.rajesh.com
Generating 4096 bit RSA key for let's encrypt account...
openssl genrsa 4096 > "/usr/local/directadmin/conf/letsencrypt.key"
Generating RSA private key, 4096 bit long modulus
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e is 65537 (0x10001)

Account has been registered.

Requesting a new certificate order…

Processing authorization for server.rajesh.com…

Waiting for domain verification…

Trying again…

1..2..3..4..5..

Challenge status: invalid. Challenge error: "type": "http-01", "status": "invalid", "error": { "type": "urn:ietf:params:acme:error:unauthorized", "detail": "Invalid response from http://server.rajesh.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/8RNbb7b7meoMInPzYbiI6QHThGV6d96Jm4kLpKtHeJE [69.172.201.153]: \"\u003c!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \\\"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN\\\"
\\\"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd\\\"\u003e\\n\u003chtml\u003e\\n\u003chead\u003e\\n\
u003cmeta http-equiv=\\\"Conte\"", "status": 403 . Exiting...

This command will install new crt, key, and ca files. Now https redirection should be enabled for the DirectAdmin control panel and also directadmin.conf should be configured with a new certificate and keys with the below commands.

# cd /usr/local/directadmin
# ./directadmin set ssl 1
# ./directadmin set carootcert /usr/local/directadmin/conf/carootcert.pem
# ./directadmin set ssl_redirect_host your.hostname.com
# service directadmin restart

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Install Let’s Encrypt certificate for the domain

A further SSL certificate can be installed on the domains hosted on the server for secure connection to the website.

To install SSL certificate on a Domain

Or

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Certificate and Key are saved successfully and installed

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How to renew your digital certificate in DirectAdmin

Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate is by default set to auto-renew within 90 days of time span. If auto-renewal is failed, type the below command to renew it automatically

# cd /usr/local/directadmin/scripts
# ./letsencrypt.sh renew mydomain.com 4096 /path/to website

SSL Renewal after Migration

If the domain is migrated from cPanel to Direct Admin, copy all crt, key file to the DirectAdmin server, and configure directadmin.conf with copied SSL certificates.

Further, if the certificates are found to be invalid or expired, Direct Admin control panel has the option to replace invalid certificates with a valid Let’s Encrypt certificate.

I hope you will understand to Install an SSL Certificate in DirectAdmin if you’re facing any error please do comment in the comment section,

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