Installing Certbot on your Rocky Linux server/machine is usually meant to be used to switch an existing HTTP site to work in HTTPS. It’s a helpful tool written in python which helps you to generate a free Let’s Encrypt certificate depending on your web server. This tutorial will only cover the steps to install Certbot on Rocky Linux.
Prerequisites
- Rocky Linux 8
- sudo privileges
Install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8
Step 1. Run the system update command.
sudo dnf update
Step 2. Add the EPEL repository.
sudo dnf install epel-release
Step 3. Install Certbot and the required packages depending on your web server.
- If you are using
Apache, run:sudo dnf install certbot python3-certbot-apache mod_ssl - If you are using Nginx, run:
sudo dnf install certbot python3-certbot-nginx
Step 4. To verify the Certbot installation, run:
certbot --version
You should get the latest stable version.
Output:
certbot 1.14.0
Conclusion
In this tutorial, I covered only the steps needed to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8. In some of the next tutorials, I will cover how to obtain a free Let’s Encrypt certificate depending on your web server. Feel free to leave a comment below and if you find this tutorial useful, follow our official channel on Telegram.