27.10 Obtaining an SSL Certificate
The certificate for a web site must be obtained from a Certificate Authority. A number of options are available at a range of prices. By far the best option, however, is to obtain a free certificate from Let’s Encrypt at the following URL:
https://letsencrypt.org/
The process of obtaining a certificate from Let’s Encrypt simply involves installing and running the Certbot tool. This tool will scan the httpd.conf file on the server and provides the option to generate certificates for any virtual hosts configured on the system. It will then generate the certificate and add virtual host entries to the Apache configuration specifically for the corresponding web sites.
Follow the steps on the Let’s Encrypt web site to download and install Certbot on your Fedora 31 system, then run the certbot tool as follows to generate and install the certificate:
# certbot-auto --apache
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