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How to Configure Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 26.04

Let’s Encrypt provides free, automated SSL/TLS certificates. With Certbot, you can obtain and auto-renew certificates for your Nginx-hosted domains in minutes, enabling HTTPS with no cost. This guide walks through the full process on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS server with Nginx installed and running A […]

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How to Configure Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 26.04

Free SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, managed by Certbot’s Apache plugin, give your Apache-hosted domains HTTPS encryption with minimal configuration and fully automatic renewals. This guide covers the complete process on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS server with Apache installed A registered domain name pointing to […]

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How to Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 24.04

Let’s Encrypt provides free, automatically-renewing SSL certificates. Certbot is the recommended ACME client that handles the entire certificate lifecycle. This guide secures an Nginx-hosted domain on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server Nginx installed with a server block for your domain Domain DNS A record pointing […]

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How to Secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt SSL on Ubuntu 24.04

This guide secures an Apache virtual host on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate using Certbot. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server Apache installed with a virtual host configured Domain DNS A record pointing to your server Port 80 and 443 open in UFW Step […]

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How To Acquire a Let's Encrypt Certificate Using DNS Validation with acme-dns-certbot on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Acquire a Let’s Encrypt Certificate Using DNS Validation with acme-dns-certbot on Ubuntu 18.04

DNS validation allows for certificate issuance requests to be verified using DNS records, rather than by serving content over HTTP. The acme-dns-certbot tool is used to connect Certbot to a third-party DNS server where the certificate validation records can be set automatically via an API when you request a certificate. The advantage of this is that you don’t need to integrate Certbot directly with your DNS provider , nor do you need to grant it unrestricted access to your full DNS configuration

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How To Install and Configure GitLab on Debian 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Configure GitLab on Debian 9

GitLab CE, or Community Edition, is an open-source application primarily used to host Git repositories, with additional development-related features like issue tracking. It is designed to be hosted using your own infrastructure, and…

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How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Debian 10 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Secure Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Debian 10

Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install free TLS/SSL certificates, thereby enabling encrypted HTTPS on web servers. In this tutorial, you will use Certbot to obtain a free SSL certificate for Apache on Debian 10 and set up your certificate to renew automatically.

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