Archive for 2020
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Using certbot to add Let's Encrypt certificate on Heroku
July 26, 2020
Ever since Google announced in 2017 that they would be prioritizing sites with HTTPS for SEO, I knew I had to make sure this blog had the necessary setup. I initially procrastinated a bit because I thought I was going to have to do some research to find the latest and greatest in terms of trusted certificate authorities. Once I decided to put this in place my research wasn’t long at all.
Enter Let’s Encrypt, a
free, automated, and open certificate authority… provided by the ISRG.
Well that gives me peace of mind. Further investigation then pointed me to
certbot
, afree, open source software tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on manually-administrated websites to enable HTTPS.
Nice 😌, that’s perfect.
Let’s get…