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How To Install a Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate on UniFi

*** THIS GUIDE IS NOW OUTDATED – Check out the   Definitive Guide to Hosted UniFi   instead! ————– Or continue below…though it’s a total waste of time. ———- Let’s Encrypt allows you to have a FREE signed SSL certificate on your UniFi Controller without having to spend any money.  When done correctly, the Let’s Encrypt certificate will continuously renew, and you will no longer have any security warnings in the browser bugging you about insecure HTTPS. This article is based on my  15 Minute Hosted UniFi Controller  setup, so start with that article, and then come back to this article when your UniFi Controller is up and running.  One additional step is that you need to create a DNS A Record that points to the IP address of your UniFi Controller.  Something like unifi.company.com.  That should be done first in order to ensure that DNS has time to propagate before you need to create the Let’s Encrypt certificate. The first thing we have t...