Setting up Sympl with LetsEncrypt DNS-based SSL certificates, using Dehydrated

Update 2024-08-29: Rolling over a certificate in Sympl doesn’t seem to work without also changing the set name, so I have updated the deploy-cert script to rename the set on each renewal. I’ve also added a section to remind you to automate the renewal with cron. Based heavily on the SSL setup in my forgejo instructions (coming soon), these instructions should setup Sympl.io with DNS-based SSL certificates. This is useful for servers behind a firewall, such as a corporate network or homelab, where LetsEncrypt can’t do http-based domain validation....

29 April 2024

Setting Up a Blog with Hugo

Well suffice to say that starting a blog has been on my list of things to do for a while. Today I have finally got round to setting one up, thanks in part to a brief discussion this last week on the fediverse (in the aftermath of the birdsite’s recent takeover). Being something of a perfectionist I’ve been reluctant to get started worried both that each post would take hours and without having fully planned out the whole blog I didn’t want to end up with another “half done” project....

9 November 2022