ServerPilot uses Nginx as the public facing web server and proxies the requests to Apache. So, we have to add our SSL configuration to Nginx.
Steps:
Login to the server using SSH
Create a directory to hold the certificate and key files.
cd /home
mkdir -p certs/domain_name
Copy the certificate (.crt) and private (.key) files to this directory. Replace domain_name with your domain name.
Add custom SSL configuration here:
cd /etc/nginx-sp/vhosts.d
nano APP_NAME.ssl.conf
Replace APPNAME with your actual app name (website). Put this inside the file APPNAME.ssl.conf:
###############################################################################
# Install SSL Certificate
###############################################################################
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
server_name
www.DOMAIN.com
DOMAIN.com
;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /home/certs/domain_name/certificate_file.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /home/certs/domain_name/privatekey_file.key;
root /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/APP_NAME/public;
access_log /srv/users/serverpilot/log/APP_NAME/APP_NAME_nginx.access.log main;
error_log /srv/users/serverpilot/log/APP_NAME/APP_NAME_nginx.error.log;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-SSL on;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
include /etc/nginx-sp/vhosts.d/APP_NAME.d/*.nonssl_conf;
include /etc/nginx-sp/vhosts.d/APP_NAME.d/*.conf;
}
As usual, replace APPNAME, domainname, certificatefile and privatekeyfile with your own values.
Restart Nginx
service nginx-sp restart
That’s it. The SSL certificate is installed.
There is also a nifty script made by Lesaff on Github that does this for you: Bash script to generate and install Let’s Encrypt certificate for your websites on your ServerPilot account (Free or Paid Plan)