Magda Sicknick

Download and install acme.sh

acme.sh is a full implementation of a LetsEncrypt client but that doesn’t depend on Python/pip/virtualenv/etc, and that doesn’t require root — exactly what we need, since we don’t have root an a shared GoDaddy server, and we can’t install new software outside of our home directory.

Now log out and SSH back in so acme.sh‘s install is complete in every way (include the Bash alias).

Get a GoDaddy API Key

1. Visit https://developer.godaddy.com/keys/
2. Generate a production key (it made me produce a test key first for some reason…)
3. In the SSH session you have open run these commands, but with each ...replaced by the value GoDaddy gave you in the previous step:

Run the below:

(NOTE: If you’re creating this cert for a domain that’s not the default domain being hosted on this server, then instead of ~/www you’ll need to do something like ~/www/MYOTHERDOMAIN.COM.)

Boom! You should have just gotten your first good news of the day — your cert, cert key, intermediate CA cert, and full cert chain have been generated!

…but GoDaddy still doesn’t know that the cert exists, so it’s not using it.

Upload cert and private key to GoDaddy via acme.sh –deploy

1. Use nano to open ~/.acme.sh/deploy/cpanel_uapi.sh, uncomment the DEPLOY_CPANEL_USER variable at the top, set its value to your username
2. Run acme.sh --deploy -d MYDOMAIN.com --deploy-hook cpanel_uapi

After ~30 seconds, you should see output like this!

Once complete, edit the cronjob file with

and replace MYDOMAIN.com and the other domains with your own domains:

Hit CTRL+X, type ‘Y’, and ENTER to save.

Tadaa, you now have a fully automated LetsEncrypt certificate on your site(s)!

Run the below commands in your phpMyAdmin.

Remember, if you have a different table alias, to adjust it accordingly.

Copy contents of a directory to a new path

Remove directory and all its contents

Apache commands

Assign ownership and change permissions

Permissions are set by three numbers using the chmod command. The three numbers correspond to: Owner, Group, and Others.

Every file and folder contain a 8-bit data that control the permissions. At its basic binary form, it will be “000”, which means no permissions of any form is granted. When you set a “Read” permission, it will add 4-bit to the data, making it “100” (in binary format) or a “4” in the usual decimal format. Setting a “Write” permission will add 2-bit to the data, making it “010” and “2” in decimal form. Lastly, setting an “Execute” permission adds 1-bit to the data, which will result in “001”, or “1” in decimal form. In short:

• Read is equivalent to 4
• Write is equivalent to 2
• Execute is equivalent to 1

When we want to set permissions, we just add up the number. For example, to set the permissions to read and write, we will use 6 (4 + 2) for the permission. For read, write and execute, we will use 7 (4 + 2 + 1) for the permission. Here’s the different permutation:

• 0 – no permission
• 1 – execute
• 2 – write
• 3 – write and execute
• 4 – read
• 5 – read and execute
• 6 – read and write
• 7 – read, write, and execute

Assign permissions to all files or folders in a directory

To assign permissions to all folders in a directory:

To assign permissions to all files in a directory: