acme.sh

acme.sh is a pure Unix shell script implementing Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) client protocol.

Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit Certificate Authority (CA) providing Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates for free that must be renewed every 90 days.

acme.sh issues and automatically renews a Let's Encrypt certificate. This is a solution for shared web hosting accounts using cPanel where the Let's Encrypt Plugin is not available.

1. Sign In
2. Under Web Hosting, click mydomain.com
3. Under Settings, click Server
4. After SSH access, click Manage
5. After SSH access, click On
6. Close SSH Setup
7. Click cPanel Admin
8. Under ADVANCED, click Terminal
9. Click I understand and want to proceed.
10. Install acme.sh

curl https://get.acme.sh | sh

11. Issue certificate

acme.sh --issue --webroot ~/public_html --domain mydomain.com

12. Deploy certificate

acme.sh --deploy --deploy-hook cpanel_uapi --domain mydomain.com

13. Sign Out

1. Sign In
2. Under Web Hosting, click mydomain.com
3. Under Settings, click Server
4. After SSH access, click Manage
5. After SSH access, click On
6. Copy and save IP address
7. Copy and save Port
8. Copy and save cPanel Username
9. Copy and save cPanel Password
10. Close SSH Setup
11. Sign Out

1. Download
2. Install
3. Open
4. Under Category:, click Session
5. Under Host Name (or IP address), enter IP address
6. Under Port, enter Port
7. Under Connection type:, select SSH
8. Click Open
9. Click No
10. After login as:, enter cPanel Username
11. After password:, enter cPanel Password
12. Install acme.sh

curl https://get.acme.sh | sh

13. Issue certificate

acme.sh --issue --webroot ~/public_html --domain mydomain.com

14. Deploy certificate

acme.sh --deploy --deploy-hook cpanel_uapi --domain mydomain.com

15. Exit

exit

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