Question on SSL

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Hello people, my litlle showcase Laptop Lease Registration app is going great, crud/mail/pdf all work, and I will demo it to my boss (IT company). Next proj will be my own website.

I registered a domain name (only name, zero space) for a few bucks a year and pointed it to my "home" ISP ip adress. Ports forwarded to small Linux (and wintel NUC) boxes. It works, but eventually I will need SSL to get rid of the chrome security warnings. My question:

  1. Does the "traefik"/let's encrypt solution also work for this particular situation?
  2. I also see some docs about installing "certbot" on the linux box, this is based on let's encrypt too. A simple certbot "renew" command would suffice to get going another 3 months, if I am correct. Could this be an alternative or is there more to it than just certbot?

Best regards, and enjoying Wappler!

Bas

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Hi,

Traefik automatically handles Let's Encrypt certificates, so you don't need certbot.

But you know how I feel about Traefik (I think I replied to one of your topics before), I recommend Caddy server instead, that also handles Let's Encrypt certificates.

Certbot is used on web servers that don't support automatic Let's Encrypt, such as nginx or Apache.