Alpine logoCreate Let's Encrypt Certificate in Alpine for Nginx

Securing Web sites with HTTPS protocol gives many advantages along with increasing rankings in search engine optimization (SEO). There are many Certificate Authority which provides SSL/TLS certificates. Some of them are free. Let's Encrypt is a reputable non-profit certificate authority providing certificates at no charge. Let's Encrypt is supported …

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Synology logoRedirect WWW to HTTPS in Synology DSM Nginx

WWW website prefix has long history and it was used to classify information what was exposed to users of websites. Another usage of WWW might be for load balancing when web traffic is redirected to a cluster of web servers. Also, some sources tell that WWW was introduced accidently as …

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Synology logoEnable gzip Compression in Synology DSM in Nginx

Enabling gzip compression for your website can be done in Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM). HTTP traffic is already compressed with gzip as default. HTTPS protocol needs to be enabled explicitly. Synology DSM is doing it in an easy step without rebooting Synology NAS. Also, Synology DSM includes text/javascript and …

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Synology logoRedirect HTTP to HTTPS in Synology DSM Nginx

Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) doesn't include GUI based functionality to set up a redirect HTTP web traffic to secured HTTPS version of your web site. The default web server in DSM 6 is Nginx and the configuration of the web server should be adjusted. It can be accomplished making manual …

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