m.b. mbajur

Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 14.04, nginx with webroot auth

This document details how I setup LE on my server. Firstly, install the client as described on http://letsencrypt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/using.html and make sure you can execute it. I put it in /root/letsencrypt.

As it is not possible to change the ports used for the standalone authenticator and I already have a nginx running on port 80/443, I opted to use the webroot method for each of my domains (note that LE does not issue wildcard certificates by design, so you probably want to get a cert for www.example.com and example.com).

Configuration

For this, I placed config files into etc/letsencrypt/configs, named after <domain>.conf. The files are simple:

How to create small, unique tokens in Ruby

That is is basically a "fork" of blog article i'm constantly returning to. It seems that the blog is down:

My choice: Dave Bass’s rand().to_s() trick

Dave Bass proposed this which I picked up for my implementation (here for an 8-chars token):

(important) Setup ubuntu to use `aufs` driver for drone

sudo apt-get install linux-image-extra-$(uname -r)
sudo reboot

Install docker

curl -s https://get.docker.io/ubuntu/ | sudo sh

	require 'benchmark'

	n = 100_000

	Benchmark.bm do \|benchmark\|
	benchmark.report("#to_s") do
	n.times do
	nil.to_s
	end
	end

	# frozen_string_literal: true

	source "https://rubygems.org"

	git_source(:github) {\|repo_name\| "https://github.com/#{repo_name}" }

	gem 'liquid'
	gem 'ruby-handlebars'

	echo '== Stoping the app =='
	docker-compose down

	echo '== Pulling changes =='
	git pull

	echo '== Building the image =='
	docker-compose build

	echo '== Removing old assets'

	<template>
	<div>
	<slot></slot>
	</div>
	</template>

	<script>
	export default {
	props: {
	/**

	module Api::Views::V1::Events
	class Index
	include Api::View
	end

	/**
	* ActionListeners(alt: AltInstance): ActionListenersInstance
	*
	* > Globally listen to individual actions
	*
	* If you need to listen to an action but don't want the weight of a store
	* then this util is what you can use.
	*
	* Usage:
	*