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It’s Even Easier Now to Set up Let’s Encrypt on WordPress with AWS Lightsail

Amazon’s Lightsail service has made it remarkably cheap and simple for people hosting webpages (including this blog) and simple web applications to get access to high quality virtual private servers (VPS). Beyond the ability to do really stupid things with your VPS powers, my only real complaint with the experience thus far has been that getting HTTPS working with Let’s...

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Migrating WordPress to AWS Lightsail and Going with Let’s Encrypt!

(Update Jan 2021: Bitnami has made available a new tool bncert which makes it even easier to enable HTTPS with a Let’s Encrypt certificate; the instructions below using Let’s Encrypt’s certbot still work but I would recommend people looking to enable HTTPS to use Bitnami’s new bncert process) I recently made two big changes to the backend of this website to keep up with the...