EasyEngine: Creating a Site without a Valid Certificate and Updating to Let's Encrypt Certificate

Introduction

This tutorial guides you through creating a WordPress site with EasyEngine using an initial self-signed certificate and without a wildcard SSL certificate. This approach is designed to avoid the error: Error: Update from wildcard SSL to normal SSL is not supported yet. By following these steps, you will be able to update your site to a valid Let's Encrypt certificate in the future.

Note: Replace www.domain.com with the URL of the site you want to create.

Initial Setup

1. Create a simple HTML site with a self-signed certificate:

   ee site create www.domain.com --type=html --ssl=self --skip-status-check

2. Copy the site certificates from /opt/easyengine/services/nginx-proxy/certs to /root/certs/:

   mkdir -p /root/certs/
   cp /opt/easyengine/services/nginx-proxy/certs/www.domain.com.* /root/certs/

3. Delete the HTML site:

   ee site delete www.domain.com --yes

4. Create a new WordPress site using custom certificates:

   ee site create www.domain.com --type=wp --ssl=custom --ssl-key='/root/certs/www.domain.com.key' --ssl-crt='/root/certs/www.domain.com.crt' --skip-status-check

5. Remove the certificates from /root/certs/ after creating the WordPress site:

   rm -rf /root/certs/www.domain.com.*

Updating to a Valid Certificate

When necessary to update to a valid certificate:

1. Backup the current certificates (optional, for recovery purposes):

   mkdir -p /root/certs/
   cp /opt/easyengine/services/nginx-proxy/certs/www.domain.com.* /root/certs/

2. Disable the current SSL configuration:

   ee site update www.domain.com --ssl=off

3. Delete the existing certificates:

   rm -rf /opt/easyengine/services/nginx-proxy/certs/www.domain.com.*

4. Update the site with a new valid Let's Encrypt certificate:

   ee site update www.domain.com --ssl=le

Resources

• EasyEngine Official Website
• EasyEngine Site Commands Documentation

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This README.md file provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a WordPress site with EasyEngine, starting with a simple HTML site and transitioning to a WordPress site with custom certificates. This setup avoids the wildcard SSL error and prepares the site for future updates with a valid Let's Encrypt certificate. For more details on EasyEngine commands, visit the EasyEngine Site Commands Documentation.