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AutoSSL is an automation feature included with cPanel & WHM version 60 and later. Whether you already have an account with us cPanel or signing up for a new account, qualify for cPanel's free Auto SSL. It discovers and deploys DV cPanel SSL certificates automatically to all websites, logins and endpoints on the server.

The Auto SSL feature providers free SSL certificates for your users' domains. The system will periodically inspect users' installed certificates and replace those that are about to expire or that are insufficient to provide a baseline level of security.

The interface allows you to manage the AutoSSL feature, which automatically installs domain-validated SSL certificates on users' domains for the Apache and Dovecot services.
It also allows you to review the feature's log files and select which users to secure with AutoSSL.

cPanel & WHM ships with the cPanel (powered by Comodo) provider. To install the Let's Encrypt AutoSSL provider plugin, read our The Let's Encrypt Plugin documentation.

Overwiew: Manage AutoSSL

When signing up for a cPanel account with Web World Ireland, a free cPanel SSL certificate is not immediately generated, but it is created overnight. Please be patient and check for your domain validated SSL the next morning after you sign up. If for any reason you do not see a SSL certificate, please contact our support.

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Website security is an integral part of most successful websites. Encrypted link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral.

Now, cPanel offers valid cPanel & WHM license holders a free signed certificate for the services on your server's hostname, to allow your web server to identify itself to the computers that access it. Free cPanel-signed certificates for the hostname are generated as of cPanel 56.

You can use any of the following types of certificates to secure your server's services:

    A free cPanel-signed hostname certificate.
    A certificate that you obtained from a certificate authority (CA).
    A self-signed certificate.

How to manage service SSL certificates click here

If the certificate for your server’s hostname does not validate, your server will automatically order, download, and install a FREE DV-signed SSL certificate from the cPanel Store.

 1. Your server's hostname must be valid and resolve in DNS.
 2. Your server must have a valid cPanel & WHM license.
 3. This system will only replace self-signed or expired certificates.

 4. It will not replace an existing certificate from a valid certificate authority.

 5. The same type of SSL certificate can be used for your Web sites and for the services listed in Manage Service SSL Certificates, but since these are separate services, the certificate must be installed separately for each service.

 6.If your hostname isn’t current, you should update it through WHM, or on the command line.

cPanel providing a method to integrate marketplace modules that offer free or paid products within cPanel. Market Provider Manager allows to manage products that users may purchase via the cPanel interface.

The Market Provider Interface in WHM is an interface for server administrators to create their own “Market” provider modules, through which you can currently sell SSL certificates, and which can be expanded on to sell anything else through the cPanel interface.

The first release of this feature is in v56, and comes with the cPanel Store provider module, which allows users to purchase COMODO and cPanel-signed SSL certificates within the cPanel user interface.

Once the purchase is complete, the system will automatically download and install them without the need to leave the cPanel interface.

 How to create a cPanel Market Provider module?  click here

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