Secure AWS EC2 instance
What you will learn here about AWS EC2 instance
- Secure AWS EC2 instance
Here we will see how to Secure AWS EC2 instance using free SSL certificate
Secure AWS EC2 instance
Please follow the following steps to know how to Secure AWS EC2 instance using free SSL certificate.
1)First you need a EC2 instance. If you don’t have EC2 instance then please visit the following link
2)Assuming you have created EC2 instance and you know the public IP address of your EC2 instance
3)Now please add A record in your DNS management (please add A record in your domain name service provider) below I have added A record in my GoDaddy DNS management which is shown below.
Record Type – A record
Host – my subdomain name
Points to – Public IP address of EC2 instance
4)It takes maximum half an hour to map your IP address to your domain name
5)Now please access your VM instance using SSH with putty. If you do not know how to access EC2 instance using putty then please visit the follow link.
How to access EC2 instance using puTTY
6)Now please execute the following command to go in super user mode
sudo su cd ../..
7)Now please execute the following command to update existing packages
sudo apt-get update
8)Now Please execute the following command to install Application server for testing purpose
sudo apt-get install apache2
9)Now open port 80 from your EC2 instance security group. If you don not know how to open port from EC2 instance security instance then please visit the following link.
How to open port on aws ec2 instance
10)Now please go to browser and enter your domain name and hit enter. Once you hit enter you will see following kind of output in the browser.
Please keep in mind now your url is loaded with not secure connection which is shown below
11)Please execute the following command to update the existing packages
sudo apt-get update
12)Please execute the following command
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
13)Please execute the following command
sudo add-apt-repository universe
14)Please execute the following command and please hit enter
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
15)Please execute the following command
sudo apt-get update
16)Please execute the following command to install the cerbot
sudo apt-get install certbot python3-certbot-apache
17-a)Please execute the following command which will redirect http to https.
sudo certbot --apache
Please enter Email address which is shown below
17-b)Type A hit enter which is shown below
17-c)Please enter n and hit enter
17-d)Enter your domain name and hit enter which is shown below
17-e)Please enter 2 and hit enter
18)Now please open port 443 from the EC2 instance security group
19)Now please refresh the URL in the browser and you will see secure connection in browser which is shown below
