Re: Bad SSL certificate at bioperl.org

A minor point, but I think that Cloudflare can redirect http to https:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170536-How-do-I-redirect-all-visitors-to-HTTPS-SSL-

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Hilmar Lapp <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not directly, that's correct.  However, there are at least three
> alternatives, each with various pros and cons.
>
> 1) We could front the site with Cloudflare. This would give us a free SSL
> cert from Cloudflare. It would not redirect http to https, and would
> require moving DNS for the domain to Cloudflare.
>

> 2) Proxy the traffic from Github.io through our Apache server on AWS. This
> would allow us to redirect http to https, and we'd use a Let's Encrypt SSL
> cert. For Apache the LE certbot can auto-renew, I think. In essence this is
> us doing some of what Cloudflare would do, except for DDOS protection, so
> the site would then have a single point of failure.
>
> 3) Use Gitlab Pages for hosting. This would allow SSL certs for custom
> domains. My understanding is they also support Let's Encrypt for cert
> renewal, but I haven't tried that yet. Downside is that now we're hosting
> the repo in a different place than everything else Bioperl. I also don't
> know about redirecting http to https.
>
> -hilmar
>
> Sent from away
>
> > On Sep 14, 2017, at 5:42 PM, Peter Cock <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > As far as I know, using your own domain with
> > GitHub pages and HTTPS is still not possible.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Carnë Draug <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> If you access https://bioperl.org you will get a
> SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
> >>
> >> The problem is that current certificate is only valid for github.io
> >> domains.
> >>
> >> Carnë
> >>
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