[How To] Install Free SSL Certificate for WordPress
In this tutorial, I have installed a free SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt using the Certbot tool on Google Cloud Platform VM running Debian OS that hosts a WordPress site using Apache server. You can follow similar steps for other Cloud providers / OS distributions / CMS vendors / Web servers . Part-1: Configure Virtual Host for your domain on Apache cd /var/www/html wp option update home 'https://example.com' wp option update siteurl 'https://example.com' sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com.conf sudo apache2ctl configtest sudo a2ensite example.com sudo systemctl reload apache2