This blog post shows you how to install Let’s Encrypt on Debian 13. Let’s Encrypt is a non-profit certification authority that provides SSL certificates for TLS (Transport Layer Security). It is the world’s most considerable certificate authority, used by more than 400 million websites. The entire process for obtaining an SSL certificate is fully automated by the Certbot. Certbot is a free and open-source software tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on a manually-administered website to enable HTTPS. HTTPS is Hypertext Transfer Protocol secure, used to send data between a web browser and a website.
Installing the Free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate is automated on Apache and Nginx web servers. We will cover the procedures for both in the following paragraphs.
Installing a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on Debian 13 is straightforward, and the process should not take more than 5 minutes. Let’s get started!