

Creating a Compute Instance and Setting Up and Securing a Compute Instance guides for information on deploying and configuring a Linode Compute Instance.Ī registered domain name with DNS records pointing to the IPv4 (and optionally IPv6) address of your server. Breaking this down further, the following components are required:Ī server running on CentOS/RHEL 8, AlmaLinux 8, or Rocky Linux 8 (or another supported distribution) with credentials to a standard user account (belonging to the sudo group) and the ability to access the server through SSH or Lish.

Before You Beginīefore continuing with this guide, you need a website accessible over HTTP using your desired domain name. Supported distributions: RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 8 and its derivatives (such a CentOS 8, AlmaLinux 8, and Rocky Linux 8). It works directly with the free Let’s Encrypt certificate authority to request (or renew) a certificate, prove ownership of the domain, and install the certificate on Apache (or other web servers). Certbot dramatically reduces the effort (and cost) of securing your websites with HTTPS. This guide provides instructions on using the open source Certbot utility with the Apache web server on CentOS 8, AlmaLinux 8, and Rocky Linux 8.
