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If your site doesn’t support HTTPS, better hurry up. Google already uses HTTPS as a ranking factor, but from July 2018, Google Chrome will label non-HTTPS sites as not-secure. The following setup is so simple that there’s basically no excuse for your site to not be HTTPS compliant. These instructions assume you’ve followed the mish-mash of a guide I posted for the starting setup. First of all, head on over to letencrypt. [Read More]

What follows is something of a personal reminder of how I got this webserver set up, using nginx to serve a static website which is generated by Hugo using git-hooks to deploy with a simple git push. I had to read several different tutorials to figure it out; those that I can remember I have linked at relevant points. A while later, I added HTTPS support using letsencrypt, but I’ll save that for another post since it required some more fiddling. [Read More]

In case you haven’t noticed, this page is Powered By Hugo ©️. Hugo is a very nice static website engine, taking your neatly arranged directories full of Markdown files and converting it into a pretty website. I had tried to do something similar with Flask but the process of getting a kind of “dynamically-static” site running where I could just drop in new files was too much of a faff. Then a friend recommended Hugo which, after a couple of days of messing about, seems perfect for my use case. [Read More]