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"Just use Nginx" was not a viable option here, without additional Certbot etc. orchestration, until 14 days ago! And this is still in preview! https://blog.nginx.org/blog/native-support-for-acme-protocol

And, if you haven't been using a reverse proxy before, or for business/risk reasons don't want to use your main site's infrastructure to proxy the inherited site, and had been handling certificates in your host's cPanel with something like https://www.wpzoom.com/blog/add-ssl-to-wordpress/ - it is indeed a dedicated project to install a reverse proxy!