Must the virtualmin panel really use a self-signed cert, or is there a way to add an actual certificate?

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Hello,

Long story short, I noticed that letsencrypt or certbot will only work for virtual domains WITHIN virtualmin: accounts that have a domain name and are listed within virtualmin.

However, the virtualmin/webmin administration panel itself ( server ip:port number, virtualmin is not loaded from a domain but from my dedi’s IP address), in my case, I don’t see any other way that letting it rely on a self-signed certificate.

I’m filing it as a “just in case” request, as this is nowhere near a life or death situation: please, would someone know if there’s a workaround this situation, and somehow, one can add a browser-valid (not generating a security warning) certificate to the virtualmin/webmin administration?

Thanks a lot if I missed the obvious and someone is kind enough to share the information with me :slight_smile:

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I import the Let’s Encrypt cert by editing the cert, ca and key path.
You can also run the webmin behind a proxy so it’s server by the same web server as your host. This does mean that if you shutdown the host site, webmin/virtualmin become unavailable too.