sheldonlendrum / nginx-new-site-with-certbox

Simple script to setup a new site with a Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate

NGINX: Create a New Site/virtual Host and secure it with Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate

Simple script to setup a new site with a Lets Encrypt SSL Certificate

Learn more about Lets Encrypt for NGINX https://letsecure.me/secure-web-deployment-with-lets-encrypt-and-nginx/

First Steps:

Install certbot

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install certbot

Check out this script then make it excuitable

chmod .+ new_site.sh

Edit any variables

You will need to check the script as I have set the paths to the default NGINX install on Ubuntu 16.04 which assumes the gninx sites config are in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and that your web root is /var/www/.

How to use:

As root (sudo user)

sudo ./new_site.sh

You will be promted to enter the root domain, eg: example.com (NOT www.example.com)

As basic config file will be created, NGINX will be reloaded, and then the Certbot Let Encrypt call will be made. Once that has created the certificates, a full secure hardened conf file will be installed and NGINX will be reloaded again.

A site folder will be created on the server in

/var/www/{domain}/www

NGINX will be configured to point to here also.

You're ready to go!

Do what you want

Do what you want with this, use it, alter it, give feedback. If you have suggestions to make it better, please let me know.