How to encrypt and protect your moodle site for free with let's encrypt
Transcript of How to encrypt and protect your moodle site for free with let's encrypt
How To Encrypt and Protect your Moodle Site for Free
Jonathan Moorehttp://elearningconsultancy.com
Twitter: @moorejon
Skype: moorejon07
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consultantOver 10 years moodle expManaged thousands of sites
What is Let's Encrypt?
A new certificate authority
Offering free Secure Sockets Layer / Transport Layer Security (SSL / TSL) certificates
Automate process to simplify installation
Admins care about outages80% 80%By knowing our changes we can drastically lower downtime
What you need
A domain you control
Admin access to server hosting the domain
Some comfort with command line
Desire to improve your site's security
Why encrypt?
Protect user's login credentials
Protect confidential information stored on your site
Help improve the internet's herd immunity
Browser makers gradually making this the default for 'safe' access indicators
More difficult for ISPs / carriers interfere with usability of your site
Warning!
Do you have a good backup
This can damage your configuration files
Get the client
https://certbot.eff.org/
Installation
Usage
Renewals
Moodle Setup
Site Administration Security HTTP Security
To Fully Encrypted Site
Edit config.phpChange $CFG->wwwroot From http://
To https://
Re-write old URLs on Existing Sites
http://my_domain/moodle31/admin/tool/replace/
Compatibility
Works with most current browsers
Will improve over time
Compatibility list
More compatibility
Non-working / Unknown
Test it
Early days for Let's Encrypt
Try first on staging or pilot site