How to renew certificate on Ubuntu?

Let’s Encrypt is hot stuff – you can use it for free and automagically renewing certs, but, I still buy my own certs. That means that I get to renew my certs, every year. I’m mostly in Microsoft camp, so all of my cert reissuing I also did on Windows Server mostly. But times have changed, I do this also on Linux now (Ubuntu) and in this guide I would like to show you how to do generate csr and reissue a cert on Ubuntu.

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Install LEMP stack on Ubuntu 22.04

I’ve been creating my web services on LAMP stack (Linux,Apache,MySQL(MariaDB), PHP) for a long time. Nginx looks like good alternative in some scenarios (light, fast websites) so I’m more and more interested in using Nginx in some scenarios. So, here we will cover LEMP stack install (Linux, Nginx, MySQL(MariaDB), PHP). Nginx is pronounced sa Engine-X, so that is where E comes from in LEMP.

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Convert .pfx certificate to .key and .crt

I usually have mixed environments, where I have to supply certificates both to Windows and Linux machines. In windows I will usually be asked for .pfx, while in Linux for .pem or .key/.crt combo. Here we will convert .pfx into .key/.crt, and we will do it in Windows environment.

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