The new Irreal SSL certificate is (finally) activated. Despite appearances, I\u2019ve been dealing with this since last Friday when I discovered the old certificate had expired. Of course, I got no notification of a pending expiry, just a browser exception when I tried to access the site.<\/p>\n
I renewed the certificate immediately but nothing happened. I thought maybe the hosting minions didn\u2019t work on the weekend so I waited until Monday before querying my provider. The process exactly replicated what happened last year but, of course, I\u2019d forgotten the details and had to rediscover them again this year. In any event, the rep I talked to was very helpful and got things taken care of forthwith.<\/p>\n
Luciano Passuello<\/a> told me there\u2019s a better way: I should be using Let\u2019s Encrypt. Perhaps I\u2019ll try that. I don\u2019t really mind paying the nominal renewal fee, I just want the process to be automatic so I don\u2019t have to worry about it and Irreal readers don\u2019t get errors when they try to read my Now back to our normally scheduled bloviations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The new Irreal SSL certificate is (finally) activated. Despite appearances, I\u2019ve been dealing with this since last Friday when I discovered the old certificate had expired. Of course, I got no notification of a pending expiry, just a browser exception … Continue reading bloviations<\/del> profound thoughts. In the mean time, I\u2019ve documented the process in my Journal so that whatever course I choose, I\u2019ll be able to get the certificate renewed before the next ice age.<\/p>\n