{"id":603,"date":"2023-11-15T12:41:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2023\/11\/15\/8592551-how-to-install-a-let-s-encrypt-ssl-certificate-on-a-vps-with-cloudpanel-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:01","slug":"8592551-how-to-install-a-let-s-encrypt-ssl-certificate-on-a-vps-with-cloudpanel-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8592551-how-to-install-a-let-s-encrypt-ssl-certificate-on-a-vps-with-cloudpanel-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install a Let&#8217;s Encrypt SSL Certificate on a VPS with CloudPanel at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>CloudPanel<\/b> is a web-based control panel designed for managing virtual servers. Here&rsquo;s a step-by-step guide on how to install a <b><a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Let&rsquo;s Encrypt<\/a><\/b> SSL certificate for a domain on a <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/vps\/cloudpanel-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">VPS with CloudPanel<\/a><\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_941ee2d643\">Prerequisites<\/h2><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">A VPS with installed<b> <a href=\"\/support\/4965922-how-to-change-the-operating-system-for-your-vps\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">CloudPanel<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">A <b><a href=\"\/support\/1583227-how-to-point-a-domain-to-your-vps\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">domain name pointed<\/a><\/b> to your VPS<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_f0454505b1\">Steps 1 &mdash; Log in to CloudPanel<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Access your <b><a href=\"https:\/\/hpanel.hostinger.com\/servers\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">VPS dashboard<\/a><\/b>, navigate to the <b>Panel access<\/b> tab, and log in with your credentials:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/4e3755c6-738b-48bc-8ac9-79751361aea7.jpg\"><\/div><h2 id=\"h_afe045b5fd\">Step 2 &mdash; Select a website<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Once logged in to <b>CloudPanel<\/b>, find the website you want to install the SSL to, and click on <b>Manage<\/b> next to it:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/224cc81c-dcb9-48c9-8efc-d805d4c35431.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_9e64384481\">Step 3 &mdash; Generate an SSL certificate <\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Within the website management section, go to the <b>SSL\/TLS<\/b> tab, and from the <b>Actions<\/b> menu, select <b>New Let&rsquo;s Encrypt Certificate<\/b>:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/0bd78349-e392-48c9-8fd3-4e639a1f56e0.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_05731f9e59\">Step 4 &mdash; Configure certificate settings<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Configure the certificate settings, whether to include www or not. Finally, click on <b>Create and Install<\/b> to initiate the Let&rsquo;s Encrypt certificate request:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2023\/11\/a83cdf68-80a8-49ca-b57f-849530291f3a.jpg\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once the process is complete, <b>CloudPanel<\/b> will display a success message indicating that the <b>Let&rsquo;s Encrypt<\/b> SSL certificate has been installed for your domain.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">And that&rsquo;s it! &#10024; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Installing a Let&#8217;s Encrypt SSL on a VPS with CloudPanel at Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vps-management"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8592551-how-to-install-a-let-s-encrypt-ssl-certificate-on-a-vps-with-cloudpanel-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/8592551-como-instalar-un-certificado-ssl-let-s-encrypt-en-un-vps-con-cloudpanel\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}