Nginx Proxy Manager with Docker: Proxy Hosts and Free SSL
Once you run more than one self-hosted app, you hit the same problem every time. Each app wants its own port, and none of them has HTTPS. Nginx Prox…
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Once you run more than one self-hosted app, you hit the same problem every time. Each app wants its own port, and none of them has HTTPS. Nginx Prox…
Building a product is one job. Keeping it alive is a completely different job. Nobody warns you about the second one. Or they do, and you don't list…
Free SSL/TLS certificate lifetimes reduce to 64 days in February.
A few months back, I was helping migrate an internal API gateway to a fresh Kubernetes cluster. It was late on a Friday afternoon. We generated a ne…
The Nginx Ingress Controller is a popular Kubernetes Ingress controller that uses Nginx as a reverse proxy and load balancer to route external traff…
Every certificate issued for every domain on the public internet gets written to a public log. Anyone can read them. Almost nobody does — because th…
Here is a failure your monitoring is built to miss. Somebody — an attacker who briefly controlled your DNS, a subdomain you forgot you delegated, an…
The hostname matches. The chain is complete — every intermediate is present, each certificate signs the next, and it all leads up to a single certif…
First, Let's Clarify What SSL Certificates Actually Do Before diving into DV/OV/EV, let's quickly run through the basics of SSL certificates. An SSL…
First-timers applying for an SSL certificate almost always get stuck at this step — picking a validation method. The UI shows HTTP-01, DNS-01, and s…
When people first encounter SSL certificates, they often ask the same question: If a free SSL certificate can already make a website HTTPS and brows…
Enabling TLS is a solved problem. Get a certificate from Let's Encrypt, point your server at it, done. What's not solved is the configuration that c…
Not long ago, when the certificate for the hesapciyiz.com site I host on my own VPS expired, I woke up to an email in the middle of the night. Yes,…
Originally published on cert-depot.com . Free, open-source self-signed certificate generator — no signup, keys never stored. Why Subject Alternative…