{"id":6467,"date":"2023-07-13T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:28:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:28:19","slug":"automatic-and-free-ssl-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/automatic-and-free-ssl-certificates","title":{"rendered":"Automatic and free SSL certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to acquire a free SSL certificate?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A free SSL certificate (of cPanel&#8217;s brand, signed by one of the largest authorization centers in the world: Comodo) for a domain is created automatically after adding the domain in Domains section in cPanel, installation (generating an SSL certificate) usually takes a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The certificate may not be generated if:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00b7<\/strong> during the addition of a domain, its DNSes do not point to our hosting (DV type certificates are authorized by referring to the domain),<br><strong>\u00b7<\/strong> rules in the .htaccess file prevent access to the page or redirect to another page or https page<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the above cases, the next generation attempt will be made automatically the next night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Extending the validity of free SSL certificates:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free SSL certificates are issued for 3 months. Before the certificate expires, it is renewed. It can therefore be concluded that the free certificate is permanently valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Parameters of free SSL certificates:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Price: free<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Recognized by 99.9% of browsers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RSA 2048 bit public key<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>128\/256 bit encryption<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provides a green padlock in the browser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"109\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/S1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/S1.png 326w, https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/S1-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This might interest you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/what-is-the-difference-between-free-ssl-certificates-and-paid-ssl-certificates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is the difference between free SSL certificates and paid SSL certific<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to acquire a free SSL certificate? A free SSL certificate (of cPanel&#8217;s brand, signed by one of the largest authorization centers in the world: Comodo) for a domain is created automatically after adding the<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/automatic-and-free-ssl-certificates\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":6469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,926,8,42],"tags":[118,1145],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guides","category-https-uk","category-security","category-ssl-certificates","tag-ssl","tag-ssl-certificates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smarthost.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}