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Steps to install SSL certificate on google cloud platform VM instances

Estimate Pricing :
Estimate Pricing :
Load-Balancer Pricing per Month – 18 $ per month for two requests
Third Party SSL Certificate – Lets take example as Comodo SSL for two years it is 88 $

Cost effective what nectarSpot team comes in

Let’s Encrypt – Totally free certificate where it costs 0 $ , for every 3 months we need to renewal it ,but not required we can make it automate renewal itself.

Google Cloud Load Balancer we are not using here,so we can directly have it on the instance how to configure Let’s Encrypt and make it auto renewal for every 3 months without manual effort

Estimate Pricing will be only for instance ,as we are not using Load Balancer here, running on a f1.micro instance will be cost effective it might charge across 4$ per month.

How to Create a Instance on Google Cloud Platform,You can go through here

https://nectarspot.com/blog/amp/how-to-host-amp-web-applications-on-google-cloud-platform/

Connect to your Instance using SSH and execute the following commands.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-certbot-apache

Now we are ready to install SSL Certificates. Execute the following command to install SSL Certificates.

sudo certbot –apache

Follow the steps after installing certbot

After executing above command we need provie an email account where You will recieve SSL Certificate expiration emails.

Next you need to Agree the Terms of Service

Now we need to select domains for which we need to Install SSL Certificates.

Finally select How to handle http requests. We are going to recommended and Select option 2

sudo service apache2 restart

This is done,now you can find HTTPS Enabled on your site

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