Certificates on dev.endevour

Manually adding SSL certs in Nginx Proxy Manager

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A large part of the reason for my use of Nginx Proxy manager over vanilla NGINX, is that it has built-in Let’s Encrypt certificate requesting and renewing. This works perfectly for all my public facing services, and until recently, my homelab services. Before I dive into how I’ve fixed the problem I ran into, I better explain how my homelab domain is set up, and before I do that, an over-simplified description of how the SSL system works is required

Certbot - adding more virtual hosts

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve got a domain that’s not currently used, so I’m going to set it up as a virtual host under NGINX. This server is already serving two domains set up with Certbot for SSL. Is it going to be possible to add another site and have Certbot manage the certificates for it after I’ve run Certbot once?

When I googled around to find out, I didn’t find anything - which is usually a sign I’m either asking a wrong question, or it’s so little drama that no one ever mentions it. I decided just to move the site, check it was all working for the http version, then run Certbot and see what it said.

Save Proxmox password in Chrome

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

When I installed Proxmox, I’d used a secure, and therefore absurdly long and complicated root password. I do use a password manager, but don’t have it integrated into Chrome, so it was buggging me having to find it and paste it in each time - why wasn’t Chrome offering to save it for me?

Well, you’d guess it was something to do with this. I feel like Chrome is trying to tell me something here: