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So, yesterday I was in a big FAAFO mode, as I fucked around and found out<\/em> that I broke stuff (ie; everything) when it was decided that we as a family should drive to the rolling green beautiful countryside where the gorgeous ranches and million dollar horse farms are. <\/p>\n

So naturally I kept fooling around on my phone via JuiceSSH<\/a> which has a text size for ants, and I made things worse.<\/em> <\/p>\n

First, I tried logging in to my ghost instance and realized that I had forgotten which password I use here. No biggie, I’ll just click the “I forgot” button, and get a new one, right?
Nooo<\/em>, that’s when I get a link that is generated on a subdomain, like “email.dabitch.net”. And there is no SSL layer on this subdomain<\/em>. So no modern browser, on your Android, iOS, MacOS, or even your computer will let you bypass that. <\/p>\n

I, in a car, driving through gorgeous rolling green hills with fabulous horses and 22-acre estates, still focusing on what I broke, trying to figure out how I broke it.<\/p>\n

Can you use Certbot<\/em><\/a> to generate an SSL file via Nginx<\/a> for a subdomain point to Mailgun<\/a>? No, of course not in 2023<\/strong>. But if I could I would! <\/p>\n

I thought I could edit a nginx.conf file to use a proxy pass, a little bit like this, and carefully typed it all out, tongue out<\/em>, because lord that JuiceSSHfont is teeny-tiny and my eyes are not as good these days, but no, that doesn’t work. <\/p>\n

location \/ {\n resolver 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8 valid=60s;\n set $mailgun \"http:\/\/mailgun.org\";\n proxy_pass $mailgun;\n port_in_redirect off;\n proxy_connect_timeout 20;\n proxy_send_timeout 20;\n proxy_read_timeout 20;\n proxy_set_header Host $host;\n proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;\n proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n
….in 2020 I believe that you could do exactly this, I had a different setup then, which was, as it turns out, part of my problem<\/em> with my website here (the one you are reading right now. ) <\/p>\n
As I was hunting down minor bugs that had developed from minor errors over several upgrades, I got really frustrated and deleted and reinstalled the whole thing – as I do –  then uploaded my backup to make stuff work again. And that’s how we found ourselves in a car, trying to log in, and, discovering that particular previously unseen mailgun error. <\/p>\n
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I like to break things to see how they work<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Once, again, we were driving through the rolling hill countryside which is probably why I just couldn’t grasp what was happening, as every so often offspring would cheerfully announce “goats!” or “look! cow<\/strong> MOO!!<\/em>“<\/p>\n
She’s quite good at that whole living-in-the-moment thing<\/strong>. Me, not so much.<\/em><\/p>\n
What does<\/em> work, after much FAAFO is turning on a flipping switch in Cloudflare that I had, for unknown reasons, turned off. Proxy the subdomain, and make a page rule with flexible SSL. Use a wildcard-asterisk at the end of your subdomain for best results.<\/p>\n
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PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE YOUR CNAME AND PAGE RULE SET FOR THE LOVE OF ODIN OR SOMEONE<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Another note, please be careful who<\/em> you use as a bulk emailer. I can’t recall who The Daily Wire wanted to use as a bulk email service, but after<\/em> they had signed the contract and paid the big<\/strong> chunk of money, the service told them to leave because “not their values”. If they do that to huge media companies that pay the big bills<\/strong>, they will not hesitate to do it to you.  <\/em>Got it? <\/p>\n
Never get addicted to cheap or free services that can turn you off at any moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n
Only and always use the services that still follow the open internet etho<\/em>s. I used to tell everyone I knew to start an account at Hurricane Electric <\/strong>back in the day, long before they became the literal backbone of the internet,<\/em> but I would steer away from anything touching them today.<\/p>\n
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Also. Remind me that I have to explain why the Scandinavian (not Nordic!<\/strong>)  ` <\/strong>backtick is such a pain in the ass on keyboards one day.  <\/p>\n
Yes, the `<\/strong>. Let’s just start with the fact that it’s a silent key – aka dead key – and I use it all the time. Try doing that on your phone via JuiceSSH<\/a> and the teeny tiny ant-font that I can barely see.  That’s a quick ticket to a high-blood-pressure headache right there. <\/p>\n
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Not happy about the Nordic key situation.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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