I would like this website www.albunack.net to support SSL

It is installed as a Java WAR file onto AWS Elastic Beanstalk at albunack.elasticbeanstalk.com, dns (as single instance) configuration is under Route 53 control.

I don't have much system admin knowledge, what is the easiest way to enable SSL for this

This is a very specific request, so I'm hoping for a series of specific steps to achieve this rather than general advice.

CodePudding user response：

From AWS recommendation, using ElasticBeanstalk, the easiest way to handle the SSL is over AWS Load Balancer.

Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/configuring-https.html

From AWS, you can easily get yourself a free SSL certificate which is issued by AWS, or import your self-signed certificate into AWS ACM.

• How to issue your own public SSL certificate? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/gs-acm-request-public.html
• How to import your SSL certificate? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/import-certificate.html

If we choose ElasticBeanstalk, AWS recommends us going with Load Balancer & Auto-Scaling to leverage all of good features that provided by ElasticBeanstalk such as Blue-Green deployment model.

Amazon Lightsail is a choice

If you manage your application with just a single EC2 instance under ElasticBeanstalk, I recommend using Amazon Lightsail which cost is much more better.

Reference: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-using-lets-encrypt-certificates-with-nginx

How to install SSL on a standalone EC2 instance

Here is a very old post but you can see the overview of steps on doing it on a single EC2 instance. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/going-https-on-amazon-ec2-ubuntu-14-04-with-lets-encrypt-certbot-on-nginx-696770649e76/