1 year ago

Securing your Laravel application with an SSL certificate is crucial in ensuring traffic from and to your application is always encrypted. Some SSL Certificates are free while others have to be purchased and are provided by Certificate authorities such as letsencrypt, and Cloudflare among others.

We will generate SSL certificates as soon as users have added their custom domain names to the system and updated their DNS records to point to our URL Shortener.

Now that the DNS level is set and Certbot is installed, we can now generate SSL certificates for users. Before we generate any SSL certificates, we first need to verify that the DNS records have propagated correctly.