SSL

Let’s Encrypt Wildcard SSL Certificates are Here!

Let’s Encrypt announced this week that Wildcard certificates are available through their new ACME2 (Automated Certificate Management Environment) protocol. Learn more about this exciting announcement!

Free Wildcard SSL Certs are coming to Let’s Encrypt

Let’s Encrypt will release wildcard SSL certificate support in January 2018. This will ease the burden of adopting and deploying SSL in cases where multiple subdomains need SSL support.

Laravel Uptime Monitor

Laravel Uptime Monitor, which aims to provide an easy and powerful way to monitor your website uptime and SSL certificate expiration date; it will notify you when your site is down using the flexible Laravel 5.3 notification system. Also, when your website goes up again, the package will kindly notify and inform you about the downtime period.

How To: Optimizing SSL on Laravel Forge

Let’s Encrypt is a new automated SSL certificate authority. Because it is free, it is opening the doors to an exciting new era of secure servers and technologies. Laravel Forge was recently to allow one-click installations of Let’s Encrypt certificates. It is now easier than ever to have your own SSL! Let’s take a few …

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Adding a secondary SSL certificate to Forge

Matt Stauffer shows us how to install a secondary cert in Forge for the www subdomain. In Forge, if you set up karaniapp.com as a site, www.karaniapp.com will forward there. But if you buy a non-wildcard SSL cert for karaniapp.com, it won’t work for www.karaniapp.com, so if someone types https://www.karaniapp.com/, it’ll give a security error. …

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Laravel Forge with Namecheap SSL

Laravel Forge makes setting up and activating an SSL super easy. In fact I was able to setup a new SSL certificate in less than 5 minutes. Here are the basic instructions for setting it up in an ideal world: Login to forge Visit the ssl tab for your domain Generate signing request Click “view …

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Setting up SSL with Laravel Forge

Chris Pitt has a new tutorial out to show you the steps to setup SSL on Laravel Forge: Laravel Forge is awesome. It’s never been easier to ship Laravel applications, even with zero sysadmin knowledge. It’s even easy to set up SSL for your site. That is what we’re going to talk about, in this …

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