Letsencrypt Wildcard SSL for GoDaddy Free Wildcard SSL Certificate

We are going to use a simple online tool that will check that you own the domain with DNS and it will generate a certificate for us.

This will secure your website and get rid of those warnings and get you https URL in 15 minutes.

I’ll be using Godaddy, but this free wildcard SSL certificate will work on any web hosting with cPanel. In addition, I will show you how to always redirect users from http to https using just a few lines of code, so that they can always see the secured site.

If you get tired of renewing the wildcard SSL certificate every 90 days, then you can buy it from Namecheap for about $39/year and you only need to renew it once a year.

Summary of how to generate letsencrypt wildcard SSL:
2. Enter your domain name & verify that you own the domain.
3. Use the DNS Manager to create TXT entries with correct values.
4. Generate the SSL certificate.
5. Add below code to your .htaccess file for http to https URL redirections
6. Updated the SSL certificate every 90 days and you have free SSL on your site!

CODE FOR HTTP TO HTTPS REDIRECT (.htaccess file):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

Remember to update the SSL certificate every 90 days, I just use my google calendar to remind me about it, it takes me about 5-10 minutes to renew the SSL certificate.

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[purplefan]

Awesome! This video nails it! That DNS checker link was the missing link for me to check the entries in DNS management. Once that was sorted, rest worked like a charm!!

[FEYSCONTROL]

Truly you are the man of the day! Congrats for that!

[Alibabachalise]

Dear Sir I personally thank you for your guiding to download and install the SSL certificate. Without your guiding I could not able succesed.

[cesarazevedo]

Thank you so much! great video and awesome tools!

[NiranjanShetty]

Thank you for this.
Keep up the good work!

[efdavis]

Hey man, thank you for this guide. I liked and subscribed!

[Matt.Schofield]

Thank you for your guides! They're excellent. Is DNS for Wildcards likely to be back functioning soon? I note on your written guide that DNS is not working at the moment. Thanks

[alphadogcreative]

Thank you so much for this AWESOME tutorial! Just saved me tons of time.

[byplus]

Thank you for your website and tutorial, you are awesome!

[omohamedahmed]

thank you it's working great without any problems, really good work

[ringrnet]

In order to fix CORS, you need to make sure that the API is sending proper headers (Access-Control-Allow-*). That's why it's not something you can fix in the UI, and that's why it only causes an issue in the browser and not via curl: because it's the browser that checks and eventually blocks the calls

[positiveaffirmations]

Subscribed and liked! Thanks! Good job!

[OldaTechs]

Thank you so much this video really help

[softwaredentistapro]

Parabéns meu amigo... suas dicas ajudaram demais!!! muito obrigado!!

[nathanandrews]

Is there a way to create wildcard certs using your own CSR as opposed to using cPanel in GoDaddy?

[akkshaybhakta]

Hi Robert,

90 days back, I followed your tutorial stepwise and successfully installed SSL for my website. Since it's now expired and I did follow the same steps over, For some reason it still says invalid certificate and shows the same expiry date as that of the previous one. I tried deleting the old certificate and redid the process but still facing the same issue.

Could you please guide me?

[chetanchetan-dnpr]

Can you please explain to me how to download free SSL for IIS I HAVE no use of C panel

[sanianaqvi]

Hi, thanks for sharing the tips to create and use free SSL certificate. This worked for my primary domain, but not for the subdomain, any ideas how to troubleshoot.

[uddhapbasak]

HI can you please make a video for installing SSL certificate on windows IIS site

[yuvraj]

I have a IONOS domain and when I add the txt values it says ok then when I click verify it says the records don't match