Getting resilio to use https?

I am wondering what I can be doing wrong here with setting up resilio to use https for its gui.

I have used info from these two posting:

I will write everything out what I did as I am new to this OS.

I am logged in as root so no sudo.


  1. Copy the SSL key/cert.

cat /etc/apache2/ssl/certs/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.key > /home/USER/.config/resilio-sync/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.key
cat /etc/apache2/ssl/certs/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.pem > /home/USER/.config/resilio-sync/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.pem

  1. Edit the Resilio config.

nano /etc/resilio-sync/config.json

  1. Add this under “listen”, within “webui”
    {
    “listening_port” : 0,
    “storage_path” : “/var/lib/resilio-sync/”,
    “pid_file” : “/var/run/resilio-sync/sync.pid”,
    “agree_to_EULA”: “yes”,
    “webui” :
    {
    “listen” : “IP:8888”,
    “force_https” : true,
    “ssl_certificate” : “/home/USER/.config/resilio-sync/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.pem” ,
    “ssl_private_key” : “/home/USER/.config/resilio-sync/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.key”
    }
    }

  2. Add lines to post-renew script

echo “cat /etc/apache2/ssl/certs/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.key > /home/USER/.config/resilio-sync/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.key” >> /home/USER/le-post-hook.sh
echo “chmod 0644 /home/USER/.config/resilio-sync/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.key” >> /home/USER/le-post-hook.sh
echo “cat /etc/apache2/ssl/certs/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.pem > /home/USER/.config/resilio-sync/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.pem” >> /home/USER/le-post-hook.sh
echo “chmod 0644 /home/USER/.config/resilio-sync/SUBDOMAIN.seedbox.io-ssl.pem” >> /home/USER/le-post-hook.sh


I turn btsync off in dashboard before doing the above, but when I try to turn it back on it stays Red. I also tried to reboot the server no luck.

I assume that I did something wrong but I have no clue where, I worked from the above mentioned links.