HTTPS Everywhere

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on Christian Mayer's Weblog.

OVH added free SSL certificates via Let’s Encrypt to all customers. All my subdomains are now reachable via HTTPS too. OVH did a great job but not told me that my homepage is now available via HTTPS. It was just an accident. HTTPS is pretty cool. Especially with a free valid non-self-signed certificate. I guess it’s a good approach to change all my profile pages on the web to direct link to https://fox21.at/. But a better to add a redirect rule to .htaccess to force the users to use HTTPS:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule .* https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [last,redirect=301]
</IfModule>

If your website is also available through HTTPS consider forcing your users to use HTTPS only.

Now I need to move my blog again. Away from GitHub Pages. I believed that I would stay forever on GitHub Pages. They don’t support HTTPS for custom domains, yet. Maybe some day I’ll move back. But for now I want everything HTTPS. The blog repository will stay on GitHub.

So let’s encrypt the Internet.

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Christian is a professional software developer living in Vienna, Austria. He loves coffee and is strongly addicted to music. In his spare time he writes open source software. He is known for developing automatic data processing systems for Debian Linux.