Archive for 2020

  • 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, a

    free, 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…

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