# Anybody running the Roots stack on Amazon Lightsail or EC2? If so, how'd you configure SSL?

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/anybody-running-the-roots-stack-on-amazon-lightsail-or-ec2-if-so-howd-you-configure-ssl/19619
**Category:** trellis
**Tags:** trellis
**Created:** 2020-11-25T14:21:22Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @vivshaw — 2020-11-25T14:21:22Z

Hi all, I’m trying to stand up a WordPress instance using the Roots stack for a project landing, but I’ve gotta use Lightsail for it (or maybe EC2), as we’re an AWS-only outfit currently. I’m having a bit of trouble figuring out how to configure SSL in Trellis correctly for this purpose though, and here’s why:

AWS currently provides our SSL certs through Amazon Certificate Manager, but for whatever reason, Amazon doesn’t let users download public certificates. As I understand it, that would be required for the [manual SSL config section in the docs](https://roots.io/docs/trellis/master/ssl/#manual), so that won’t work.

The alternative would be the default Let’s Encrypt option, but I’m worried this would cause problems- we already have a wildcard cert for this domain because it already hosts other parts of the project. The WordPress will just be one small part on a subdomain.

So, if anybody’s successfully got Trellis up on Lightsail with functioning SSL, I’d be curious to hear what your approach was!

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## Post 2 by @ng3 — 2020-11-29T11:20:56Z

I host a production environment on Lightsail. I love it. To be honest i just use the default Trellis implementation of LetsEncrypt which works seamlessly.

I don’t know how generating a new LE cert would affect things given you already have a wildcard. I wonder if you spin up a staging instance on lightsail and then see what happens when LetsEncrypt checks the domain.

Alternatively you could investigate the LE Certbot tool which may allow you to do a dry run?

Or, set up Trellis with no SSL, then follow amazon’s docs to apply your wildcard cert manually via SSH

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## Post 3 by @pusparaj767 — 2020-12-28T15:46:09Z

How do you setup roots in AWS?  
Would you share me idea to deploy my local project to aws ec2 Beanstalk

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## Post 4 by @system — 2021-01-06T14:26:11Z

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