After moving the foss.trainingserver to a new location, we found that TLS certificate was expired. I had looked and figured out that though certbot renewed the certificate, it never reloaded the nginx. Now to make sure that nginx is reloaded next time, we must add the renew hook in…
To get the Let’s Encrypt certificate in standalone mode, certbot needs port 80 to be available, leading to stop the webserver each time before we start the renewal process. The other way of getting and subsequently renewing the certificate is through webroot mode. In webroot Let’s encrypt certificate…
IRC plays an invaluable role in the life of so many people, separated by so many miles. It has been the primary source of communication for the Free and Open Source community for decades, now. In my last post, I shared how to install a znc bouncer to stay connected…
I am trying to work on my sys-admin skills for a some time now. I was already maintaining my own blog, I was pondering to learn Ansible. DGPLUG was planning to create a new Qubes OS mirror. So I took the opportunity to learn Ansible and I set up a…
In my last blog post, I shared the story on how did I set my server up. I mentioned that I’d be writing about getting SSL certificates, so here you go. When I started working on a remote server somewhere out there in the globe and letting that come…