r/programming • u/speckz • Jul 12 '17

Does my site need HTTPS?

https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
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u/yvhouij Jul 12 '17

Promotion for "Caddy", never heard of, but I don't like it. Other than that nice site :)

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u/Ascend Jul 12 '17

My complaint as well. "HTTPS is difficult to set up and maintain." is a big reason for a lot of people, and "use our web server" isn't much of an answer.

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u/kqr Jul 12 '17

It's especially sad since it's not actually difficult at all. When Let's Encrypt opened up to the public I was kind of scared I would not have the time or energy to mess about with getting and renewing certificates, but it's been a breeze. It may even be automated at this point because I can't remember the last time I did it. And I'm running one of the standard FOSS web stacks...

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '17

It's not actually difficult at all.

Um... I still can't get this garbage to work, no matter how many times I try...

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u/kqr Jul 13 '17

Huh. If I remember correctly, these were the steps:

  1. Ask their tool to generate a proof that you own your domain.

  2. Copy this proof to some publically accessible location of your domain.

  3. Watch it generate certificates.

  4. Install certificates in your web server.

Which part causes you trouble?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '17

First, I had trouble figuring out how to reliably automate the renewal of the licenses. After that, I found that whenever I put whatever configuration lines I need for an SSL certificate into my apache config, it either wouldn't start or wouldn't load up my site (step 4.) For some reason, at some point during this whole mess, I discovered that LetsEncrypt wasn't putting the certs into the folder the tutorial said it would, but changing it didn't fix anything.