Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:04): Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:04):Yesterday I set up HTTPS for https://greptilian.com
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:05):I still need to work on subdomains of greptilian.com. And stuff I host for http://thedurbins.com , including subdomains.
Dan (Nov 12 2025 at 22:06):What tech did you use?
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:07):For https://greptilian.com ? It's hosted on GitHub Pages. See https://github.com/pdurbin/pdurbin.github.com
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:08):It was mostly a matter of updating DNS records.
Dan (Nov 12 2025 at 22:08):Oh so the webserver didn't even come into play.
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:08):right
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:09):My reasoning has always been that GitHub Pages will have much better uptime than my little Digital Ocean droplet. So that's where I host the URL for "me" on the Internet.
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:11):Huh, sudo apt install caddy doesn't work without some other steps: https://caddyserver.com/docs/install#debian-ubuntu-raspbian
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:12):I'm on Ubuntu 22.04.
Dan (Nov 12 2025 at 22:12):I'm pretty sure it's in the normal Debian repo. Caddy probably likes to encourage people to install the latest version from their own repo.
Dan (Nov 12 2025 at 22:14):Did you actually try sudo apt install caddy without adding their key?
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 22:15):Yeah. Here's what it says:
No apt package "caddy", but there is a snap with that name.
Dan (Nov 12 2025 at 22:16):oh jeez. well I thought Ubuntu hijacks apt with snap anyway. maybe you turned that off somehow. I don't use Ubuntu anymore mainly because of this.
Dan (Nov 12 2025 at 22:16):Like the same is said for chromium and maybe firefox
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 23:02):Yeah, I'm really not sure. I don't remember installing anything via snap. According to https://askubuntu.com/questions/1261242/how-to-list-packages-manually-installed-by-snap I do have some stuff installed via snap:
pdurbin@server4:~$ ls -l /snap/bin
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 30 08:26 lxc -> lxd.lxc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 30 08:26 lxd -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 30 08:26 lxd.benchmark -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 30 08:26 lxd.buginfo -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 30 08:26 lxd.check-kernel -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 30 08:26 lxd.lxc -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 30 08:26 lxd.lxc-to-lxd -> /usr/bin/snap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Sep 30 08:26 lxd.migrate -> /usr/bin/snap
pdurbin@server4:~$ ls -l /var/lib/snapd/snaps
total 419916
-rw------- 2 root root 66871296 Sep 26 20:26 core20_2669.snap
-rw------- 2 root root 66871296 Nov 6 16:56 core20_2682.snap
-rw------- 1 root root 93745152 Nov 26 2024 lxd_31333.snap
-rw------- 2 root root 95842304 Sep 30 08:26 lxd_35819.snap
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 8 2022 partial
-rw------- 2 root root 53235712 Aug 22 23:46 snapd_25202.snap
-rw------- 2 root root 53399552 Oct 21 04:01 snapd_25577.snap
I'm using Apache right now. This seems fairly relevant: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu
Dan (Nov 12 2025 at 23:06):So one of your sites is on Github Pages and the other is on Digital Ocean via Apache?
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 23:07):I have a lot of subdomains.
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 23:08):pdurbin@server4:~$ ls -1 /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
000-default.conf
api.greptilian.com.conf
blog.greptilian.com.conf
bostonopen.dev.conf
irc.greptilian.com.conf
movies.greptilian.com.conf
music.thedurbins.com.conf
people.greptilian.com.conf
thedurbins.com.conf
unread.greptilian.com.conf
wiki.greptilian.com.conf
(I never got bostonopen.dev.conf working because .dev domains require HTTPS.)
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 23:47):Hey, it worked! https://blog.greptilian.com
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 23:47): Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 23:48):Let's Encrypt has been around for a decade. Not sure why it took me so long. Thanks for the nudge! :smile:
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 23:50):https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-apache-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu was really good.
And sudo certbot --apache "just worked". I simply followed the prompts.
Philip Durbin (Nov 12 2025 at 23:50):I guess I'm not sure what to do if I want to add a new subdomain. Re-run sudo certbot --apache? :thinking:
Philip Durbin (Nov 13 2025 at 01:58):I wrote up a little blog post: https://blog.greptilian.com/2025/11/12/https-at-last/
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