Using Free LetsEncrypt Https SSL on Bitnami Lamp on EC2

If you want to try out the new free SSL certificate using LetsEncrypt for a web site hosted on Bitnami LAMP Stack on Amazon EC2, here is how I did it.

First of all I’m using a very simple apache install on bitnami, so the default bitnami supplied scripts to configure apache2 and mysql and php are all still there in the default location.