Topic

SSL

A collection of 2 issues

Hosting a static website in an S3 bucket with SSL gotchas

I recently deployed a static website to AWS using S3, CloudFront, Route 53 and the AWS Certificate manager. There we a few 'gotchas' in there so I thought I'd outline by process here for others: Certificate Manager Firstly, I created a free AWS SSL Certificate. It's pretty straight forward, just

Setting up a new site with LetsEncrypt and Nginx

I've been absolutely buzzing about LetsEncrypt since it was first announced. It was a long overdue addition to life on the web. In this post-Snowden era, encryption has never been more important. So went I set up this blog (and am soon to set up the main site) I decided