Request free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for your website and email, check certificate status and turn on Force HTTPS in the FREAKHOSTING Web Panel.
An SSL certificate puts the padlock in your visitors’ browser and lets your site load on https://. Every domain can have a free Let’s Encrypt certificate, and Force HTTPS makes sure visitors always use the secure version.
Difficulty
Beginner
Time
5 minutes
Your domain must point to FREAKHOSTING before Let’s Encrypt can issue a certificate. Set the nameservers first: see Point your domain to FREAKHOSTING.
A confirmation explains that any existing certificate on the domain will be replaced.
Confirm the request
3
Click Request
You’ll see Issuing a Let’s Encrypt certificate for ‘example.com’. Within about a minute the Certificate column updates, or an error message appears (see Troubleshooting). Refresh the page if nothing changes.
4
Repeat for each subdomain
Subdomains such as blog.example.com have their own row and need their own request.
Let’s Encrypt certificates last three months and renew automatically about 14 days before they expire. You don’t need to do anything. If a renewal fails, the panel keeps retrying.
Choose Request Let’s Encrypt certificate for mail. from the same menu to secure mail.example.com. This stops “certificate not trusted” warnings in email apps that connect to mail. your domain. See Set up email clients.
Once your domain has a valid certificate, turn on the Force HTTPS toggle in its row. You’ll see Force HTTPS enabled. Anyone who opens http://example.com is now sent to https://example.com.
Only turn on Force HTTPS after the Let’s Encrypt certificate is issued. With a self-signed certificate, visitors are sent to a page with a security warning.
Using WordPress? After switching to HTTPS, make sure the site address starts with https:// in the WordPress Toolkit, so pages and images load securely.
Failed to issue a Let's Encrypt certificate … no valid A records found
The full message looks like Failed to issue a Let’s Encrypt certificate for example.com: … no valid A records found for example.com. Let’s Encrypt couldn’t find your domain pointing to us.
Check your nameservers are alpha, beta, charlie and delta.freakhosting.com. See Point your domain.
If you just changed them, wait a few hours (up to 48) and request again.
If your DNS is with Cloudflare, make sure the domain’s A record points to your website’s IP address shown in At a glance on your website’s home page.
The browser still says Not secure
Check the Certificate column no longer says Self signed. If your site loads images or scripts over http://, the browser can still warn; update those links to https:// (for WordPress, a plugin such as LiteSpeed Cache or the site address setting helps).
Too many redirects after turning on Force HTTPS
This often happens behind Cloudflare with SSL mode set to Flexible. Set Cloudflare’s SSL mode to Full or Full (strict), or turn Force HTTPS off.
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