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title: Setting up TLS for Rust Rocket
date: "2023-03-22"

Setting up TLS for my Blog

Certbot ftw

• The first and most important step is to check out the Certbot page.
• Then under the "My Http website is running" pick "Other" and your the OS you are using Debian or whatever
  

Getting the files

• Follow the instructions of certbot
• You will see your generated files provided by certbot, which will be put into
  
• After that I copied the files into my static folder where I also have all my markdown files of the blog. ( I know it is not alot but yeah )

Setting up a Rocket.toml file

• My toml file is probably not super correct but hey it works.

  [default]
  address = "81.169.131.112"
  port = 443
  LogLevel = "debug"
  

  [default.tls]
  certs = ".certs/fullchain.pem"
  key = ".certs/privkey.pem"
  

Finalize

• After that I just run
  

  cargo build --release

Additional Info

• I had to add a additional feature to my rocket dependency in my cargo.toml
  

• Check Rocket tls

  [dependencies]
  rocket = { version = "0.5.0-rc.2", features = ["tls"] }
  

After That everything should work hopefully.

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