Forced use of HTTPS on Blog
12 Jun 2018Quick update to this blog.
I have configured and forced the use of HTTPS.
Previously I started to look into this but had forgotten about it until a recent blog post by Scott Helme reminded me of just how important HTTPS is. For more information on why HTTPS should be the default for all websites I suggest this link: https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
This site is hosted on GitHub pages and uses Jekyll as a static site template. Enabling HTTPS was simple enough, below is a list of useful links in case anyone struggles:
- https://blog.github.com/2018-05-01-github-pages-custom-domains-https/
- https://help.github.com/articles/setting-up-an-apex-domain/
The most annoying parts were waiting for DNS entries to update and then editing
files in my Jekyll settings to make sure https://
was used instead of http://
where appropriate.
In other news I have noticed I need to fix some formatting in my previous post so it looks good on smaller devices, unfortunately I did not have Jekyll running on the machine I wrote that post on so could not preview the post before publishing.
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