Emscripten: Set up emscripten.org to work with HTTPS

[surma]

Currently, https://emscripten.org/ does not work.

At least the redirect from http://emscripten.org to http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/ should be changed to redirect to https://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/.

[kripken]

I think I updated redirects to https://kripken.github.io/.. now, but it may take a few hours to update. We should check tomorrow probably.

[kripken]

I don't actually know how to set up https://emscripten.org itself to work. Is that something I need to ask the registrar for?

[chicoxyzzy]

I think I updated redirects to https://kripken.github.io/.. now, but it may take a few hours to update. We should check tomorrow probably.

This works already 👍

I don't actually know how to set up https://emscripten.org itself to work. Is that something I need to ask the registrar for?

You need certificate. Let's Encrypt provides free certificates and it's probably the easiest way to set up HTTPS https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/.

[kripken]

Hmm, I really don't know anything about this stuff :) but I don't have shell access nor a hosting provider, I just have the domain, and the domain registrar has "web redirects" that I set to https://kripken.github.io/. I don't have a way to set up a certificate there (not without using their hosting option too).

[chicoxyzzy]

You can use custom domain with GitHub Pages https://help.github.com/articles/using-a-custom-domain-with-github-pages/.

[surma]

+1 to @chicoxyzzy’s suggestion.

@kripken I am happy to help with web-related stuff if desired :)

[kripken]

Help would be great - starting to read that page, it talks about 'apex' and other domains, and a bunch of other things and steps that I don't understand at all :)

Is there maybe some doc somewhere that just says what to do for the simple case? (I assume we don't need anything special here?)

[kripken]

The github docs say I should make an ALIAS or ANAME record. My domain registrar is gandi, and I don't see an option in their UI for either of those, or in their docs.

[surma]

@kripken I’ll ping you OOB. I can help you with this :)

[kripken]

Ok, this seems to now be working. emscripten.org, with and without https, looks ok.

Oddly www.emscripten.org does not work, still looking into that.

[kripken]

Ok, looks like that's fixed too, so I think we can close this.

Thanks for all the help!