Let's Encrypt on Your ServerPilot Free Plan

Automate the installation of Let's Encrypt SSL on the free plan of ServerPilot

About the script

ServerPilot's paid plan costs only $10 per month that unlocks auto installation of Let's Encrypt SSL along with some other premium features. But if you don't want to spend that $10 then this script can automate the installation of the SSL on your ServerPilot servers. When you activate the SSL for an app, this script adds a cron job as well that takes care of the renewal of your Let's Encrypt SSL.

Getting started

Clone the repo

Run this command to clone the reposity and to add the CRON job for auto-renewal of the certs:

$ git clone https://github.com/quickfever/letsencrypt-serverpilot-free.git && cd serverpilot-letsencrypt-free && sudo mv sple.sh /usr/local/bin/qfssl && sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/qfssl && (crontab -l ; echo "@monthly \"sudo service nginx-sp stop && yes | letsencrypt --standalone renew &>/dev/null && service nginx-sp start && service nginx-sp reload\"")| crontab - && service cron reload

Successful execution of the above command will clone the script to your system and the script will be copied to /usr/local/bin and will be made executable as qfssl. After that, you can execute it easily by running qfssl command.

Install SSL

$ qfssl

Follow on-screen instructions.

Need help? Ask me in my blog post here.

How to Uninstall

First of all, uninstall the SSL from each domain by choosing uninstall option after executing qfssl command. This step is optional and this removes the added vhosts. If you don't want to remove the vhosts and only want to remove the script, then ignore this step.

Next, execute this command in your terminal to delete the script:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/qfssl

Lastly, edit the crontab by running crontab -e command delete the added CRON jobs responsible for SSL auto-renewals.