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| ryan | technology | I’ve been futzing around with SSL on this site since last December. I’ve had about 4 attempts and it just never seemed to work. Earlier this evening I was thinking about getting a second [Linode](https://www.linode.com) just to get a fresh start. I was _this_ close to getting it when I thought, what the hell, let me try to work it out one more time. And this time it actually worked. I’m not really sure what I did differently, but using this [site](https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntuxenial-apache) seemed to make all of the difference. The only other thing I had to do was make a change in the word press settings (from `http` to `https`) and enable a plugin [Really Simple SSL](https://really-simple-ssl.com) and it finally worked. I even got an ‘A’ from SSL Labs!  Again, not really sure why this seemed so hard and took so long. I guess sometimes you just have to try over and over and over again | 2018-04-07 | ssl-finally | I’ve been futzing around with SSL on this site since last December. I’ve had about 4 attempts and it just never seemed to work. Earlier this evening I was thinking about getting a second [Linode](https://www.linode.com) just to get a fresh start. I was _this_ close to getting it … | SSL ... Finally! | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/04/07/ssl-finally/ |