How to enable cPanel’s Official Let’s Encrypt certificate on WHM/cPanel? Print

cPanel provides a Free SSL Certificate called AutoSSL Certificate. AutoSSL provides SSL Certificate for your Domains hosted in WHM/cPanel free of cost. Once you enable the AutoSSL for any of the Domains, it will create the automatic request to auto-install and renew the SSL Certificate.

There are 2 types of SSL Certificate providers.

1. cPanel (powered by Sectigo)
   
   
2. Let’s Encrypt
   
   

We already prepared an article to install a default SSL Certificate (cPanel -powered by Sectigo) for your Domain. You can click on this link How to activate and Manage Auto SSL certificate in WHM/cPanel? to get the same article.

By default, Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate Plugin will be added automatically on cPanel & WHM version 58.0.17 & above. In case, you are not able to view the Let’s Encrypt option for AutoSSL, you can run the below command from SSH.

/scripts/install_lets_encrypt_autossl_provider

1. Open your WHM Panel.
   
   
2. Search for AutoSSL inside SSL/TLS and click on Manage AutoSSL.
   
   
   
   
3. At Providers tab, tick the Let's Encrypt Radio Button and click on the Save button.
   
   
   
   
4. Go to the Manage Users and click on the check cPanel user name button.
   
   
   
   
5. Now, Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate will be installed on your selected Domain. You will verify it from the View Log Button inside Log.