security | Trevor Elwell http://trevorelwell.me/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 02:02:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 Allow Certbot Access to Subdirectory with .htpasswd on Apache2 https://trevorelwell.me/allow-certbot-access-to-subdirectory-with-htpasswd-on-apache2/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 03:20:09 +0000 https://trevorelwell.me/?p=962 I was trying to find a way to allow certbot to auto renew, but kept getting verification errors. The error showed that certbot couldn’t get access to /.well-known/acme-challenge/<SOME_HASH>: which was why it was failing. Turns out, I have a custom WordPress setup which requires .htpasswd authorization. This is to make it so the outside world ... Read More

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