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On this tutorial I will show you how to configure your Pound proxy server so it can take advantage of the awesome SSL service provided by Let's Encrypt.

Let's Encrypt is an open-source certificate authority that issues SSL certificates for free making use of the ACME protocol, making possible to obtain trusted certificates for your websites and operate under HTTPS:// with no browser warnings and securing your content of course.

The services also provides a command line tool called Certbot, that can be easily installed on any Linux OS and it will help creating the necessary steps in…
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This is a super quick guide to add certificate files to a Pound proxy, very useful when using it in environments with Varnish servers. This configuration was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04

Follow the next steps that I took as sample from this site to configure Pound with a self-signed certificate, make sure to run all commands as root:


$ sudo su


Pound HTTPS Configuration

The following steps will guide you through the generation of a self-signed certificate for your test project server.

During the process you will create:
- server.key: This is a 1024 bit…
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