Today let’s learn how to Add SSL on Bitnami google cloud configured free, auto-renewing SSL certificates for websites, Bobcares with help of Google Cloud Platform Support Services will help you with any sort of google cloud related queries.

Steps to Add SSL on Bitnami google cloud

An SSL Certificate is a security code on a web server that facilitates encryption between a web server and a web host. It prevents communication from being intercepted or manipulated by eavesdropping from third parties.

1. Connect to WordPress via SSH

Go to your Google Compute homepage and click on the menu option in the upper left-hand corner.

Then Navigate to Compute Engine, and later click on the VM instances to access your WordPress installation.

Once you accessed Compute Engine >>  click on the SSH button to connect to VM Instance. This will give access to your shell SSH for generating certificates.

2. Generate SSL Certificates

Now that the VM instance is connected, the next step is to copy and paste the certificate issuing command into your terminal. To issue the certificate follow the command:

sudo /opt/bitnami/letsencrypt/scripts/generate-certificate.sh -m email@domain.com -d domain.com -d www.domain.com

Replace email@domain.com with your email address and domain with your domain name.

3. Configure SSL Certificates

Now that you’ve entered the certificate issuing command, you will be prompted with do you want to continue as “yes” or “no”? press y and then press Enter three times.

4. Configure HTTPS Redirect

Now that the certificates have been configured, the very next step is to configure a redirect in your bitnami.conf file in order to redirect all traffic to the HTTPS secure version of your website. To do this, open the bitnami.conf file for editing:

sudo nano /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf

Next copy and paste the below code after the Document root line. After editing the file save and exit the file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://www.domain.com/$1 [R,L]

Replace the domain name with your website. Next In order for the recent file changes to reflect, need to restart the service.

5. Restart Apache Server

Finally, restart the Apache server. You can follow the below command in your terminal.

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache

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Conclusion

To sum up, in this quick article you have learned how to configure free, auto-renewing SSL certificates for WordPress websites hosted on the Google Cloud Platform compute engine using the Bitnami version of WordPress on Google Cloud Platform.