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Never pay for SSL again. Powered by ZeroSSL with free 90-day certificates.

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Our free SSL certificates are trusted in 99.9% of all major browsers worldwide.

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Protect user information, generate trust and improve Search Engine Ranking.

How It Works

Starting the SSL certificate creation process above will allow you to create one or multiple free SSL certificates, issued by ZeroSSL. Like Let's Encrypt, they also offer their own ACME server, compatible with most ACME plug-ins.

For browsers that support Web Cryptography (all modern browsers), we generate a private key in your browser using the Web Cryptography API, and the private key is never transmitted. The private key also gets deleted off your browser after the certificate is generated. If your browser does not support the Web Cryptography API, then the keys will be generated on the server using the latest version of OpenSSL and outputted over SSL, never stored. For the best security, you are recommended to use a supported browser for client generation. You can also provide your own CSR when using manual verification, in which case the private key is handled completely on your end.

Tutorials

These tutorials have been graciously created by others to help with your SSL certificate verification and installation process depending on your server setup.

  1. Cpanel Logo CPanel Shared Server Hosting - SSL Certificate - HTTP Verification, Installation, and Force HTTPS Redirect
    1. Alternative Hindi Language Version
    2. Alternative Portuguese Language Version
    3. Alternative Russian Language Version
    4. Alternative Spanish Language Version
    5. Alternative Arabic Language Version
    6. Alternative Turkish Language Version
    7. Alternative Persian (Farsi) Language Version
  2. Microsoft IIS Logo Microsoft IIS 8.5 Web Server - SSL Certificate - Cloudflare DNS Verification, SSL Certificate PFX Conversion, & Installation
  3. Microsoft Azure Logo Microsoft Azure Server Hosting - Wildcard SSL Certificate - DNS Verification, SSL Certificate PFX Conversion, & Installation
  4. NGINX Logo NGINX Server - SSL Certificate - HTTP Verification & Installation
  5. Godaddy Logo GoDaddy Shared Server Hosting - SSL Certificate - DNS Verification & Installation
  6. Hostinger Logo Hostinger Shared Server Hosting - SSL Certificate - HTTP Verification & Installation
  7. Plesk Logo Plesk (on Media Temple) Server Hosting - SSL Certificate - HTTP / DNS Verification Installation, & Force HTTPS Redirect
  8. Apache Logo Linux Logo Apache 2.4 Web Server on Linux (such as LAMP) - SSL Certificate - FileZilla HTTP Verification & Installation
  9. Apache Logo Windows Logo Apache 2.4 Web Server on Windows (such as XAMPP or WAMP) - SSL Certificate - DNS Verification & Installation
  10. Docker Logo Digital Ocean Logo Docker (on DigitalOcean) NGINX Reverse Proxy - SSL Certificate - HTTP Verification & Installation
  11. Surveygizmo Logo SurveyGizmo - SSL Certificate - Cloudflare DNS Verification & Installation
  12. Convert SSL Certificate Files to PFX File for Microsoft IIS Web Server or Microsoft Azure Web Server
  13. Install SSL Certificates on other web servers such as cPanel, WHM, Plesk, Plesk Onyx, Apache OpenSSL/ModSSL, IIS 7, IIS 8, IIS 10, Nginx, Tomcat (using keytool), Exchange2007 (PowerShell), DirectAdmin, AWS ELB, Synology NAS, Vesta CP, Mac OS X/Yosemite/El Capitan, Sun Java System Web Server 7.x, Webmin, Node.js, EasyWP, Exchange 2013 (EAC), Exchange 2013 (Shell), Exchange 2010, Heroku, Heroku SSL, Azure Web App, Glassfish, Zimbra, Google Cloud Service, SonicWall, Citrix NetScaler VPX, XAMPP, CWP
  14. Have a tutorial you'd like to add here? Click here to contact us and we'll add a link to it here and you'll get full credit for it

Advanced Options

Wildcard certificates allow you to secure any sub-domains under a domain. If you want to secure any sub-domains of example.org that you have now or in the future you can make a wildcard certificate. To generate wildcard certificates, add an asterisk to the beginning of the domain(s) followed by a period. Wildcard certificates will also secure the root domain, so there is no need to re-enter the root domain in the process. For example, to create a wildcard domain for example.org, enter *.example.org. If you need certificates for multiple domains, such as example.org and example.com, you will need to create a separate wildcard certificate for each domain. Domain verification will be required for each domain.

Multiple domains or sub-domains are allowed and can be added to your certificate in the second step. Before entering multiple domains, please always first enter your primary domain (common name) above and click "Create Free SSL Certificate". If the multiple domains or sub-domains pertain to multiple directories then you must use email verification or manual HTTP verification and upload verification files to the correct directories or use DNS verification.

We automatically add the www version of the domain to the certificate (the www. domain may need separate certificate installation for it to work) if not already added as most users want that implicitly. To remove the www just submit the domains you want to verify then on the verification page near the top click on "Add / Edit Domains" and remove it and submit again.

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, it is free for all usages including commercial usage.

Yes, just choose one of the manual verification methods and there will be an input at the bottom before the generate certificate button to provide your own CSR.

Yes, our SSL certificates are 100% free. We provide Domain Validation (DV) SSL certificates at no cost. We also offer premium features for users who need additional functionality, but our basic SSL certificates will always remain free.

For domain names with special characters or international characters we automatically convert it to the punycode representation.

Yes, all verification files or records can be deleted after verification. It is used only once for each verification.

If your website shows a security error then installation was not done correctly. You can try going to https://www.ssllabs.com/ to check SSL certificate installation issues and fix. If you need help with this your best bet would be to contact your host, professional developer or admin for help.

Your website most likely has insecure content which needs to be remedied. You can try going to https://whynopadlock.com to see issues and fix. If you need help with this your best bet would be to contact your host, professional developer or admin for help.

Web servers do not redirect to HTTPS by default. If you want to force it you will have to configure it to force a redirect. This configuration will depend on your server setup. If you need help with this your best bet would be to contact your host, professional developer or admin for help.

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Other Free SSL Tools

These tools can help with your SSL process. The tools are graciously provided by their respective authors, we are not responsible for any third party SSL tools.

Credits

  • Let's Encrypt - For their free ACME client and trusted root certificate cross signed by Iden Trust.
  • PKIJS - For their amazing Web Crypto wrapper and CSR generation library.
  • JSZIP - For client zipping and downloading of certificate files.