<p class="last-updated">Last updated on December 8th, 2020 at 12:36 pm</p><p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6223" src="https://truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Install-SSL-Certificate-on-cPanel-300x172.jpg" alt=" Deploy SSL Certificate Cpanel " width="300" height="172" /></p>
<p>In this article, we explain the process of how to manually deploy free SSL certificate on a Cpanel on your website. It covers details on SSL and Cpanel.</p>
<p><a href="https://truehost.com.ng/control-panel-hosting-in-nigeria/">cPanel</a> is a web hosting control panel developed by cPanel, L.L.C., an American corporation. The software provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site to the website owner or the “end-user”.</p>
<p>SSL certificates protect your site and make your online reputation grow. In order for your site to work properly, it stores all of your website details and information on a server. When you buy an SSL certificate you also get a digital certificate that protects your online stored data.</p>
<h2>How to Manually Deploy Free SSL Certificate On A Cpanel</h2>
<p>Its takes 3 minutes to manually install Lets Encrypt SSL certificate in a Cpanel Hosting account. The instructions below will guide you through adding TXT record on your Cpanel without stress:</p>
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<li>Go to <a href="http://www.sslforfree.com/">http://www.sslforfree.com/</a></li>
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<p>Fill in your website domain name in the provided address bar.<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4601" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/addressbarssl.png" alt="" width="1315" height="432" /></p>
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<li>Click Create Free SSL certificate</li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4601" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/addressbarssl.png" alt="" width="1315" height="432" />It will provide domain verification option – chose the manual domain verification via manually upload SSL files</p>
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<li>Click Manually Verify domain button to display files to down and upload in your Cpanel</li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4602" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/manualverifyssl.png" alt="" width="1239" height="505" /></p>
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<li>Download the two provided files</li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-4603" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/downloadfilesssl.png" alt="" width="893" height="317" /></p>
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<li>Login to your Cpanel</li>
<li>Click on File Manager option in your Cpanel</li>
<li>Click on Public_html directory</li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4605" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/publichtml.png" alt="" width="797" height="333" /></p>
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<li>In the Public, Directory click +folder icon to create a new folder named <strong>.well-known</strong></li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4606" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/well-known.png" alt="" width="794" height="304" /></p>
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<li>Inside the .well-known folder create another folder called acme-challenge</li>
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<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4607" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/acme-challenge.png" alt="" width="886" height="357" /></strong></p>
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<li>Inside acme-challenge upload the two files downloaded from sslforfree.com</li>
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<li>On sslforfree.com follow the two links provided to verify ownership of domain and website.</li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-4608" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/verifylinkssl.png" alt="" width="763" height="187" /></p>
<p>If a random string of character shows on your browser your verification was successful, any error encountered means it was not a success &#8211; check the files you just uploaded and probably repeat the last step.</p>
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<li>The Click Download SSL Certificate to download the SSL certificate.</li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4609" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/downssl.png" alt="" width="1278" height="223" /></p>
<p>This generates Private Key, CA Bundle and Certificate</p>
<p>Installation of SSL certificate</p>
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<li>Under Security Section of your Cpanel click on SSL/TLS</li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4609" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/downssl.png" alt="" width="1278" height="223" /></p>
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<li>Click on Manage SSL Sites<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4612" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ssltls.png" alt="" width="1109" height="288" /></li>
<li>Copy from sslforfree.com and paste the content of Private Key, CA Bundle and Certificate in their respective boxes in your Cpanel.<br />
<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4611" style="letter-spacing: 1px;" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/pastecertificate-1.png" alt="" width="879" height="552" /></li>
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<li>Click Install SSL Certificate to install the SSL certificate in your Cpanel</li>
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<p>Final steps involve forcing all the traffic through SSL</p>
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<li>Go the Public_html of the Cpanel and check for the presence of a hidden file called .htaccess</li>
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<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4613" src="https://www.truehost.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/htaccess.png" alt="" width="846" height="89" /></p>
<p>If available edit if not available create it and add the following scripts.</p>
<p><em>RewriteEngine On </em><em><br />
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80<br />
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R,L]</em></p>
<p>Click Save to save file.</p>
<p>Bingo! – Your site is now secure</p>
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