Category: Let’s Encrypt Guide

You will need to add a so-called TXT record to continue DNS verification while generating an SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt by Really Simple SSL. We will explain how this is done, in some cases your hosting environment might look different, but the responding fields should be similar. If Really Simple SSL shows the following… Go to your hosting provider and choose DNS zone, DNS settings, etc to show a list of DNS records. Add a new TXT record and

You can use Really Simple Security to generate (and install) a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on your WordPress website. Note: your hosting provider may prevent the manual installation of a third-party SSL certificate. Most commonly when the host also offer free SSL generation directly in their Hosting Control Panel. Some hosts only provide you with paid SSL certificate options. The Let’s Encrypt Wizard Really Simple Security skips the Let’s Encrypt Wizard if a valid SSL certificate is detected. If,

Protect SSL generation directories this warning occurs when your SSL certificate files aren’t protected. This happens when Really Simple SSL has created an ssl/certs and ssl/keys directory in your websites root folder. The public certificate (*.crt) being available is not an issue, it’s the private key (*.key) file that needs to be protected. To fix this issue, you can modify the file permissions to 644 for the .crt file and 600 for the .key file. You might have to ask your hosting provider

If you receive the following notice, while using Really Simple SSL to install a Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate: Your server provides shell functionality, which offers additional methods to install SSL. If installing SSL using the default methods is not possible, you can install the shell add on. Below you will find the shell add-on to install Let’s Encrypt with shell functionality. Why an add-on? Some anti-virus software trigger on shell functions when these files are scanned. Although a false positive,

When you encounter the “RSA keypair export failed” error when generating an SSL certificate, it’s because of a configuration issue with the OpenSSL library on your webserver. OpenSSL is a library that is commonly used to interact with TLS and SSL. An error in this library can cause issues such as the RSA keypair export failure. Really Simple SSL does not manage the OpenSSL library on your webserver. OpenSSL is managed by your hosting provider. We therefore recommend contacting your hosting