Category: Tools

Here is how I set up Let’s Encrypt for all sites on my hosted virtual private server running cPanel.

1. SSH as root

$ ssh -p 22 root@123.1.23.123

Your port might also be 2200. Ask your VPS hosting provider.

2. Then run the command:

$ /scripts/install_lets_encrypt_autossl_provider

3.Log into your main control panel:

https://123.1.23.123:2087

or however you access it (possibly port 2086 if http://)

You should see the following (or something similar) if successful:

Running transaction
  Installing : cpanel-letsencrypt-2.16-3.2.noarch            1/1
 
  Verifying  : cpanel-letsencrypt-2.16-3.2.noarch            1/1
 
Complete!

4. Under SSL/TLS you’ll find “Manage AutoSSL”
Under “providers”, you’ll see “Let’s Encrypt”. That’s a new option that was created by running the command as root.

Select “Let’s Encrypt”. Then agree to their terms of service and create a new registration with Let’s Encrypt if necessary. Under the “managed users” tab you can enable / disable AutoSSL by account.

5. Now, under the control panel of each account, under SECURITY > SSL/TLS, under “Install and Manage SSL for your site (HTTPS)”, if you select “Manage SSL Sites”, you’ll see the Let’s Encrypt  cert.

Note: If you had a self signed certificate (which you don’t want), delete the cert in the individual account. Click the “run AutoSSL for all users” button as root under “Manage Auto SSL”. When you refresh the individual user, the correct cert should be there.

6. Yay. All your accounts now have an SSL Cert. You still need to redirect all of your http:// traffic to https://. In the .htaccess add the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}/%{REQUEST_URI}

Now http://machinelearningworkshop.com/ redirects to https://machinelearningworkshop.com and http://www.machinelearningworkshop.com redirects to https://www.machinelearningworkshop.com/

and one of these days this blog will do the same.

Note: Updated September 15 to add Firefox support.

Sometimes Twitter gets things wrong. Very, very, wrong. A few “features” that I think are bugs include Twitter Moments,

To this end, I created a little bookmarklet called “TWELP”.

<a href="javascript:(function($){function kill(){$('.promoted-tweet, .Icon--heartBadge').closest('li.stream-item').css('display','none');$('.js-moments-tab, .DismissibleModule').css('display','none');setTimeout(kill, 1000);}kill();})(window.jQuery);">TWELP</a>

Let me rewrite that for you in a version that’s easy to read, but won’t work to copy and paste:

(function(){
    function kill($) {
         $('.promoted-tweet, .Icon--heartBadge').closest('li.stream-item').css('display','none');
         $('.js-moments-tab, .DismissibleModule').css('display','none');

         setTimeout(kill, 1000);
     }

     kill();
})(window.jQuery);

The bookmarklet creates a kill function that:

1. hides promoted tweets by finding the parent tweet containing a promoted-tweet child class
2. hides any “liked” tweets that contain the heart icon, including uninteresting tweets in your stream suck as the fact that your friend Jane liked a tweet of a picture of her acquaintance Joe, who you are not following, eating an oyster. Seriously, who the fuck cares? It also hides the “people who liked your tweet” feature in your notifications. Not sure if that is a feature or a bug.
3. hides the “Moments” tab by hiding the tab that has the  js-moments-tab class
4. hides promoted modules that I hate like “In Case You Missed It” and “Who to follow”
5. Calls itself once per second so if you scroll, it will continue killing those annoying tweets mentioned above.
6. You have to pass window.jQuery to $ because Firefox defines it’s own $. (Thanks to @Potch for that tidbit)

TWELP – You can drag this link to your bookmarks bar, and click TWELP bookmarklet whenever you load Twitter. It kills the “Moments” tab, all ads, and removes the “X liked” tweets.

or, you can wrap your own.