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Upgrading Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 for WordPress

So today I decided to take on an adventure of updating my WordPress from an ancient 4.x to 5.x.

I did my due diligence of backing up and take a snapshot from DigitalOcean (my VPS service provider) and then started the risky process. The WordPress upgrade itself was relatively smooth with no issues. Little did I know that I was jumping into something more serious… Continue reading

letsencrypt Apache vhost

letsencrypt Apache vhost config on Ubuntu

Solving letsencrypt Apache vhost config issues

Setting up letsencrypt can be tricky with different variations of apache vhost configs. Here is how to set up letsencrypt Apache vhost config correctly:

(Note: letsencrypt is now certbot. The environment I am using is apache2 by DigitalOcean for Ubuntu/Wordpress VPS, single domain name)
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