willaford.com

A practice website using Wordpress on Lightsail

HTTPS for Lightsail WordPress Instances

What is the problem?

expired certificate.

What have I done about it?

The old way: get a cert, think it is automatic, watch it expire.

What did I need to to about it?

The new way: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-enabling-https-on-wordpress

Tried and tested on 6 June 2023. bncert found the existing cert for all of the domains, updated the cert, set a cron job 🤞 for renewal, updated server config, and rebooted. The manual steps were snapshotting the instance before starting, getting latest version of bncert tool, and typing in the domains


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