Chapter 14 You should use SSL/HTTPS

Learning objectives:

• Details that we won’t dig into:
  • Identify the problems that SSL/https are meant to solve.
  • Explain how SSL/https solve those problems.
• Configure SSL on an AWS EC2.
  • Configure nginx to identify your domain name.
  • Use certbot to set up SSL.
  • Update the rstudio configuration in nginx to support https.
  • Open the necessary ports on your EC2’s security group.