Question
Trying, and failing, to get an SSL up on a wordpress droblet
- Posted on January 19, 2022
- WordPress
Asked by Joseph Warren
Started trying to get an SSL up on my latest wordpress project. I grabbed the ‘Really Simple SSL’ plugin on wordpress, and walked through it’s steps.
It asks me to set up an SSL on DO via the Settings - Security - Add Certificate from the DO dashboard. I have created that certificate now I am sitting here, waiting. Wordpress/plugin still can’t see the certificate.
Upon using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html to try to check for the certificate it just responds with “Assessment failed: Unable to connect to the server”
So, I am at a loss now and between this and a tablet problem my frustration has reached critical levels. The tablet is somewhere down the hallway.
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My mistake was that I did not have the www.domain.com set up in my domain redirects.
Hi @Kaote,
The best and easiest solution I think for you, in this case, is to use Let’s Encrypt and certbot.
First I urge you to check the following plugin:
Additionally, I’ll recommend checking this tutorial on how to install certbot and configure it on your Droplet for your Domain:
If you are using Nginx:
If you are using Apache2: