- Location - The location of the application. Usually just a URL, but the location can contain multiple pieces of information that can be used by an app
- pathname - The "file/directory" portion of the URL, like
invoices/123 - search - The stuff after
?in a URL like/assignments?showGrades=1. - query - A parsed version of search, usually an object but not a standard browser feature.
- hash - The
#portion of the URL. This is not available to servers inrequest.urlso its client only. By default it means which part of the page the user should be scrolled to, but developers use it for various things. - state - Object associated with a location. Think of it like a hidden URL query. It's state you want to keep with a specific location, but you don't want it to be visible in the URL.
- pathname - The "file/directory" portion of the URL, like
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Let's Encrypt Nginx setup with Ansible
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| Ansible playbook to setup HTTPS using Let's encrypt on nginx. | |
| The Ansible playbook installs everything needed to serve static files from a nginx server over HTTPS. | |
| The server pass A rating on [SSL Labs](https://www.ssllabs.com/). | |
| To use: | |
| 1. Install [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/) | |
| 2. Setup an Ubuntu 16.04 server accessible over ssh | |
| 3. Create `/etc/ansible/hosts` according to template below and change example.com to your domain | |
| 4. Copy the rest of the files to an empty directory (`playbook.yml` in the root of that folder and the rest in the `templates` subfolder) |