I have been using Let’s Encrypt for my site certificates for a few years now. Something about that price of ‘free’ makes it appealing. I recently bought a new computer. I work in IT and should be able to handle that with no issue. When I got my new computer, I copied all my relevant… Continue reading Certificate Woe’s and Wonders
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Azure CDN Endpoint Certs Bummer
I have a site (Michael’s World) that uses an Azure CDN Endpoint. I have shared here before that you can use this to share static web content. I had it setup with the apex/root domain and went to update the cert. (You have to bring your own cert or pay for a cert for the… Continue reading Azure CDN Endpoint Certs Bummer
Finally got it all working
I have been on a quest the past few days to move one of my websites to Azure. Overall, it isn’t really that difficult, but it also isn’t very clear. First, I created an Azure Storage Account, and enabled it for static website capability. Then, because I don’t like easy, I enabled it for HTTPS/TLS… Continue reading Finally got it all working
Let’s Encrypt
As I posted previously, I am working on moving all of my websites to Azure. I started with the easiest one, which is a static page. So far, I have moved it, and it is now reachable via HTTPS, but not without the ‘www’. While that isn’t important for that particular site, it is important… Continue reading Let’s Encrypt
Skip the www (part 2)
Many moons ago, I figured out how to get my websites to be accessible without the www subdomain. When I recently moved one of my three websites to Azure, I didn’t immediately solve that problem. As the website isn’t ever visited and isn’t important, this isn’t an issue, but I do want to solve it… Continue reading Skip the www (part 2)
Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution
If you see this: ‘VMName’ failed to initialize. Could not initialize machine remoting system. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0x80004005). Could not find a usable certificate. Error: ‘Unspecified error’ (0x80004005). Then this could be your answer: Symptoms and resolution: § You may be unable to start or connect to virtual machines running on Windows Server 2008 or… Continue reading Hyper-V certificate expiration and resolution