{"id":5744,"date":"2019-10-30T15:10:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2023-10-25T18:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T16:41:50","slug":"webspace-how-to-run-auto-ssl-manually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/webspace-how-to-run-auto-ssl-manually\/","title":{"rendered":"Webspace: How to run Auto-SSL manually"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A free SSL certificate for your domain can be installed at any time within cPanel. Your website will receive automatically a free SSL certificate after 12-24 hours, however requesting the certificate manually will install it immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case your browser shows the following warning when accessing your website via https:\/\/ the SSL certificate might not be installed yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In order to request the certificate manually you need to login to your cPanel account, the login information was sent to you via E-Mail before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once logged in you need to navigate to “SSL\/TLS Status”.
Afterwards select the checkbox of the domain you would like to secure and hit “Run AutoSSL”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Important:<\/strong> In case of an error you further need to investigate the reason. A certain amount of failed SSL requests will get your domain suspended from Let’s Encrypt Auto-SSL, the suspension might last several days or even weeks.
The following request failed as the DNS was not updated yet. It might take up to 24-48 hours in case your domain is being transferred. Recently (newly) created domains might take several hours to work properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In our case the subdomain was missing in DNS-Management, we added a corresponding entry and waited a couple of minutes (one cup of coffee).

We rescheduled AutoSSL to run immediately and it properly installed the certificate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The website is accessible via https:\/\/ and no browser warning will be displayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to redirect any non secured “http:\/\/” to secured\/encrypted “https:\/\/” traffic you might want to add a corresponding .htaccess redirect rule or alternatively add a rule within cPanels “Redirect” menu:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A common issue after securing your website is the so called “mixed content”, in case you are using static .html files you need to update any http:\/\/ reference to https:\/\/ manually.
The browser’s “lock” icon will appear green afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case you have any issues with Auto-SSL feel free to contact our customer support<\/a> via E-Mail. Please make sure to wait at least 24 hours, in case your domain is still being transferred. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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