Let's Encrypt

There’s an easier way to do this now, I wrote about it here: Free Web Analytics with umami Recently I wanted some analytics on my blog to see what my popular pages were, and where the traffic was being referred from. Google Analytics doesn’t float my boat as it’s not exactly privacy preserving, and I don’t want to feed the service sacrificing giant.

This is a step by step guide on how to secure Ghost with nginx and Let’s Encrypt. This guide is part of the Deploy Ghost series and is split into three parts - Deploying, Securing, and Optimising. This is part two and once we’re done, we will have our Ghost blog running over HTTPS, with a good TLS and security header setup.