SSL\TLS Certificate

ABDULLAH AL

• June 07, 2025 21:50

Hi Team, I have a quick question regarding my primary domain. I noticed that it currently has only a self-signed SSL certificate that's valid for just one day. Is this expected behavior? Do I need to purchase an SSL certificate from an external provider and apply it to my primary domain, or is there another recommended approach? Thank you in advance for your help! Best regards,

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  Anthony Jackson

  • June 08, 2025 00:07

  You can buy the SSL from the cPanel store, however you can also get free SSL certificates from the auto Auto SSL feature" A couple of things here that have helped me here, first ensure port 53 is open on your server, this is for DNS propagation.

  Second, you will want to set up your private name servers, article found here  on how to do this - https://docs.cpanel.net/knowledge-base/dns/how-to-set-up-nameservers-in-a-cpanel-environment/

  When you do the above step, you will be setting the A record as well, this will trigger the auto SSL once it is propagated. After all this is propagated, if memory serves me right you will be issued a free SSL fro the domain through the auto ssl feature. You can then issue free SSL certs to other domains as well.

  Also for this to work you will need a cPanel account set up as well. I hope this helps!

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  Andrew

  • June 09, 2025 12:01

  As Anthony said under SSL/TLS option you can install a free SSL certificate for your cPanel account.

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