Pretty cool, right? 🤓
I also leveraged Google Fonts, and added a Favicon. The last thing that bothered me was the fact that the site wasn't secure.
I feel as though security is an important part of setting up a site, and did some more research online. I ended up finding out about "certbot",
which would help automatically certify my site, and allow for auto-renewal options.
Things got a little tricky here, as the documentation was not geared towards AWS and I had to make a few attempts before finding success.
In the end, I installed the snapd package on my instance
so that I could leverage the snapd / Apache guide from Certbot.
I set up the service to auto-renew periodically to remove yearly manual upkeep.
Finally, I established a
redirect in httpd.conf
(under /etc/httpd/conf/) to ensure the https version of the site is being used at all times.