Set up SSL in VestaCP admin panel.

VestaCP comes with Let’s Encrypt support. Let’s Encrypt is a free SSL Certificate provider which is valid for 3 month time. After following this tutorial you will be able to use SSL in admin panel. So lets begin…….

Login to your admin panel and go to web. In a fresh installation you will only have hostname added in your web section. Edit on edit. (Edit button will be shown on hover)

Then check SSL Support & Lets Encrypt Support like the below image.

DON’T DO ANYTHING UNTIL THE PROCESS IS COMPLETED. YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED THAT YOUR CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED.

By default VestaCP store its admin SSL certificate and key file to

/usr/local/vesta/ssl/
and Let's Encrypt store its certificate to /home/$USER/conf/web/

We need to create symlinks so that whenever Let’s Encrypt issue a certificate its also update the admin certificates as well.

Now, connect to your server by ssh and run the following commands. DON’T FORGET TO CHANGE vps.freetechtorial.com, WITH YOURS.

Backup Your Old Certificate & Key File First

mv /usr/local/vesta/ssl/certificate.crt /usr/local/vesta/ssl/unusablecer.crt

mv /usr/local/vesta/ssl/certificate.key /usr/local/vesta/ssl/unusablecer.key

Create Symlink

ln -s /home/admin/conf/web/ssl.vps.freetechtorial.com.crt /usr/local/vesta/ssl/certificate.crt

ln -s /home/admin/conf/web/ssl.vps.freetechtorial.com.key /usr/local/vesta/ssl/certificate.key

Now the last step,

service vesta restart

Logout from admin panel and clear your browser cache, then log in again.

Thank You