TLS CERTIFICATES for HTTPS There are many ways to proceed with implementing HTTPS on aMiSTACX. For the purpose of this article we will discuss four basic options: Free Self-Signed Placeholder, Cloudflare Free Origin Certificates, Let’s Encrypt Free Wildcard Certificates, and installing a paid certificate. Self-Signed Almost ALL stacks have a placeholder self-signed cert ready to… Continue reading SSL/TLS certs for Apache and NGINX on aMiSTACX
Category: Let’s Encrypt
Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certs on Ubuntu
Let’s Encrypt has been offering wildcard TLS certificates since the January 2018, and aMiSTACX has the Let’s Encrypt agent certbot-auto [G3, G4] or certbot [G5] pre-installed. This should cover all aMiSTACX G3/G4/G5s running on Ubuntu 16, 18, & 20 LAMP and LEMP stacks. Recommendation: Don’t use Let’s Encrypt! Make use of Cloudflare Origin Certificates. This… Continue reading Let’s Encrypt Wildcard Certs on Ubuntu
Renewing your Let’s Encrypt Certificate
It wouldn’t be too far fetched to imagine Captain Kirk yelling out “Cronnnnnnnnn! Cronnnnnnnnnn!”. Recommended: Don’t use Let’s Encrypt! Make use of Cloudflare’s Origin Certificates. They are Free and have expirations in years, not three months. Just keeping a sense of humor to an area that has caused many of us some frustration. Making sure our… Continue reading Renewing your Let’s Encrypt Certificate
Let’s Encrypt – “does not support any combination of challenges”
Note: If you consider using Let’s Encrypt, please understand it will ask to register your IP in a public database. You may want consider changing your IP for a public production system, or consider a system like Cloudflare origin certificates. To remedy the error received when attempting to get a certificate: “Client with the currently selected… Continue reading Let’s Encrypt – “does not support any combination of challenges”
Let’s Encrypt – tls: handshake failure [Cloudflare]
You just launched an aMiSTACX stack, and you are ready to grab your Free Cert from Let’s Encrypt, you followed all the directions, and when you go through the Let’s Encrypt process it throws an ugly error: tls: handshake failure Only if everything was so easy to resolve, and believe me I have fallen to this… Continue reading Let’s Encrypt – tls: handshake failure [Cloudflare]