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Let's Encrypt Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

Securing your site over HTTPS is really important nowadays. Here's a few articles explaining why and how to secure your website.

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Fix a Let's Encrypt Related Expired Root Certificate on an Old Server

If you have a server with OpenSSL 1.0.x you may have been unable to renew your SSL certificates after September 29th 2021.

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Enable HTTP/2 with nginx on Debian Jessie / Stretch and Ubuntu 16

Enabling HTTP/2 is really easy and doing so will give you a number of free wins, such as faster page loads and better SEO rankings.

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Cloudflare vs Let's Encrypt for HTTPS

There's a number of options for securing your site with HTTPS and not all of them are equal. Learn the differences between these 2 free options.

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ngrok, lvh.me and nip.io: A Trilogy for Local Development and Testing

Learn how to accept webhooks on your local web server, work with subdomains on localhost and test Let's Encrypt without a domain name.

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Securing Your Website with HTTPS Is More Important than Ever

There's been a huge movement to make the web secure in recent days and this is mostly due to the consequences of not securing your site.

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A Review of the HTTPS with Let's Encrypt Course by Mikael M.

Let's Encrypt is a free service for issuing SSL certificates. Learn what Mikael liked and disliked about my latest course in this case study.

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Debugging Let's Encrypt Errors, Sometimes It's Not Your Fault

How DNS may cause temporary errors when trying to register an SSL certificate with Let's Encrypt, or anything really.

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