Free HTTPS for NodeBB

[HARIOM VASHISTH]

Hariom Vashisth  /  Jun 18, 2018

Free HTTPS within 5 minutes

secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on ubuntu 16.04

[adobomovie]

i am searching free ssl for my website so plz tell me about how i get free https in 5minutes..?

[teh_g]

@adobomovie said in Free HTTPS for NodeBB:

i am searching free ssl for my website so plz tell me about how i get free https in 5minutes..?

The actual Let's Encrypt site has great documentation for it: https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/

[jimmyc2018]

I just setup "Let's Encrypt" yesterday but today noticed "Secure" doesn't always show up beside my URL as I'm browsing back and forth through my NodeBB forum.

There's even one forum Topic/Page that always shows up without the "Secure" sign. Even if I repeatedly refresh the page and clear my browser out and come back to it.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[baris]

@jimmyc2018 Does the topic have any images that are loaded over http?

[jimmyc2018]

@baris

sudo nano nodebb/config.json

"url": "http://www.MyDOMAIN.com",

CHANGED THAT TO:

"url": "https://www.MyDOMAIN.com",

[teh_g]

@jimmyc2018 said in Free HTTPS for NodeBB:

I just setup "Let's Encrypt" yesterday but today noticed "Secure" doesn't always show up beside my URL as I'm browsing back and forth through my NodeBB forum.

There's even one forum Topic/Page that always shows up without the "Secure" sign. Even if I repeatedly refresh the page and clear my browser out and come back to it.

Has anyone else experienced this?

On top of changing the URL to HTTPS, you should setup forwarding so people always hit your https page.

With CloudFlare I have these setup:

For good measure, I have the following in my nginx config too:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name gamingexodus.com www.gamingexodus.com;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

Though looking at my nginx block now, I probably need to say return 301 https://gamingexodus.com$request_uri; to ensure www is not used.