{"id":17495,"date":"2025-01-07T15:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=17495"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T19:11:30","slug":"free-ssl-https-certificate-via-zerossl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=17495","title":{"rendered":"Free SSL (https) certificate via ZeroSSL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Nadia's <a href=\"https:\/\/solotempehnj.com\/\">https:\/\/solotempehnj.com\/<\/a> website creation, I've been using ZeroSSL's free SSL certificate. They provide easy instruction for implementing their 90-day free certificate on GoDaddy. I am just not sure if their limit for 3 free certificates has unlimited renewals or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It's as easy as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sign up free account on ZeroSSL, where you are allowed 3 such free 90-day certificates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use one of the 3 methods to implement your domain, I chose DNS CNAME method: copy\/paste data from your new ZeroSSL certification creation site to Godaddy's DNS record.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Download The Certificate from ZeroSSL generated site, and unzip the zipped file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/help.zerossl.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360058295094-Before-Installation\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/help.zerossl.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360058295094-Before-Installation\">ZeroSSL provided<\/a> instruction for <a href=\"https:\/\/help.zerossl.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360058295454-Installing-SSL-Certificate-on-GoDaddy\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/help.zerossl.com\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/360058295454-Installing-SSL-Certificate-on-GoDaddy\">GoDaddy users<\/a> to install (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.godaddy.com\/help\/manually-install-an-ssl-certificate-on-my-web-hosting-cpanel-plan-or-vps-hosting-12027\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.godaddy.com\/help\/manually-install-an-ssl-certificate-on-my-web-hosting-cpanel-plan-or-vps-hosting-12027\">video instruction<\/a>) the certificate on GoDaddy via its CPanel-&gt; Security-&gt; SSL\/TLS. Upload certificate.crt file, copy\/paste content of private.key, accordingly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ZeroSSL has a button to check if everything is installed properly. Once done, the browser will no longer gives that \"not secure\" warning for users upon site visit.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Nadia's https:\/\/solotempehnj.com\/ website creation, I've been using ZeroSSL's free SSL certificate. They provide easy instruction for implementing their 90-day free certificate on GoDaddy. I am just not sure if their limit for 3 free certificates has unlimited renewals or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=17495\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17500,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17495\/revisions\/17500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}