#nodebalancer

Setting up Let’s Encrypt to Work With a Linode NodeBalancer

For some people, the first time setting up Let’s Encrypt can be a little daunting. That’s okay. It’s beta software that doesn’t yet have a fully polished process. It’s beta software that turned the whole process of obtaining a commercially signed SSL certificate on its head. I was a bit confused at first because I have several websites (including this one) running on a load-balanced setup using a…

When creating FelicianoTech.com, I decided to go HTTPS only. Nowadays there’s no reason not to, the cost is negligible (both in server resources & money). I started to build the site first in a virtual machine (VM) then on my actual server. Everything done over HTTP. Preparring to publish my site, I imported my old post, installed Jetpack, and set the WordPress & Site URLs to ‘https://’. I…

The Situation

You've checked that your SSL certs are valid and HTTPS is still not working on your Linode instance that's behind NodeBalancer.

The Solution

Login to your Linode web interface

Edit your port 443 NodeBalancer settings. Change protocol HTTP to TCP.