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How do I activate the Let’s encrypt SSL?

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When you purchase your web hosting from Papaki, you can activate the Let’s encrypt SSL for free through your hosting’s Plesk panel. Just follow the steps below:

1. Log in to your account at Papaki.

2. Click on the "Hosting” category on the left menu and choose the plan you are interested in.

3. Click "Manage Hosting”.

4. In your Plesk panel click on the "Let’s encrypt” icon

You will find the "Let’s encrypt” icon in your domain’s applications. You can activate it separately for each domain you have in Plesk.

5. Enter your email address

Use a valid email that you have access to and you receive emails from and then click "Install”.


6. The activation is completed

In a few minutes your website will open with https and not with http!


Additional settings

If you have created your site with Wordpress, you need to make to more steps:

1) htaccess file settings

Click "Files” from the left menu in Plesk. In the "httpdocs” folder, click on the "htaccess” file. If it doesn’t exist, create a file with this name and upload it to the "httpdocs” file. Then, you need to insert in the file the following code as shown in the screenshot below:

" RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off

RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [R,L] ”


2) WordPress settings

Log in your Wordpress Admin Panel, click "Settings” and the "General” on the left menu. Add "s” in the "WordPress Address (URL)” and "Site Address (URL)” so that instead of "http” it says "https”. 

If you install WordPress for the first time, in the 1st step click next

In the 2nd step choose "https”


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