Getting your WordPress site over to HTTPS is essential these days. Not just for security and public awareness, but also SEO ranking appears to be gravitating towards HTTPS as a requirement. To switch WordPress over from HTTP to HTTPS literally should take under 5 minutes! Of course, that is assuming you are using aMiSTACX, and… Continue reading Migrate WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS
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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
How to add a purchased certificate to aMiSTACX
Generally speaking this will be the same process for both Apache and NGINX. A high-level overview is provided here. Please see your stack instructions for more details per vhost configuration. Step 1. Copy the certificate(s) [key, crt, pem etc. as per what issuer provided] to: /etc/{Apache2, NGINX}/ssl/ Step 2. Update the vhost files for the server with… Continue reading How to add a purchased certificate to aMiSTACX
Cloudflare Page Rule for HTTP to HTTPS
HTTP to HTTPS via Cloudflare As many are aware, aMiSTACX is big on “It just works!” configurations. Why spend hours trying to hack to make something as simple as http to https redirection work? As we also advocate Cloudflare for DNS, WAF, and CDN solutions for those that just want to get up and running as quick as possible in a… Continue reading Cloudflare Page Rule for HTTP to HTTPS