{"id":17788,"date":"2026-04-06T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/wiki\/ssl-certificate-seedbox-es\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:00:00","password":"","slug":"ssl-certificate-seedbox-es","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wiki\/ssl-certificate-seedbox-es\/","title":{"rendered":"SSL Certificate Setup for Seedbox Web Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why SSL on a Seedbox?<\/h2>\n<p>SSL encrypts the connection between your browser and your seedbox. Without it, your login credentials and torrent data are sent in plain text \u2014 visible to anyone monitoring your network.<\/p>\n<h2>Self-Signed vs Let&#8217;s Encrypt<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Self-signed:<\/strong> Quick, no domain needed, but browsers show security warnings<\/li>\n<li><strong>Let&#8217;s Encrypt:<\/strong> Free, trusted certificates \u2014 no warnings, but requires a domain name pointing to your seedbox<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Fixing Self-Signed Certificate Warnings<\/h2>\n<p>If you see \u00abYour connection is not private\u00bb when accessing your seedbox:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click Advanced \u2192 Proceed to site (this is safe for your own seedbox)<\/li>\n<li>Or: import the certificate into your browser&#8217;s trusted store for permanent trust<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Let&#8217;s Encrypt Setup<\/h2>\n<pre><code># Install certbotnsudo apt install certbotnn# Generate certificatensudo certbot certonly --standalone -d yourdomain.comnn# Certificate files will be at:n# \/etc\/letsencrypt\/live\/yourdomain.com\/fullchain.pemn# \/etc\/letsencrypt\/live\/yourdomain.com\/privkey.pem<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why SSL on a Seedbox? SSL encrypts the connection between your browser and your seedbox. Without it, your login credentials and torrent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-17788","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":135,"total_views":"6","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Tim Michels","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/17788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=17788"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evoseedbox.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=17788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}