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Part 5 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed part 4 where we generated an SSL certificate and configured end-to-end HTTPS encryption for our site. At this stage in the setup, we have a fully functional and secure WordPress site with a process to automatically renew our SSL certificates for free. If you are like me, you are trying to run a WordPress site without breaking the bank. In that spirit,…

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Part 4 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed part 3 where we configured our custom domain and DNS in Azure and Cloudflare. If you’ve made it to this point, you have successfully setup a WordPress site using Azure App Service. You have setup Cloudflare as your DNS provider and reverse proxy. You deployed Acmebot as an Azure function, configured its Application settings, configured the associated Azure Key vault’s permissions, and…

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Part 3 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed Part 2 where we configured our custom domain and DNS in Azure and Cloudflare. A very important piece of your website’s security is having a trusted SSL certificate bound to it. The SSL certificate enables the encrypted connection that web browsers rely on to connect securely to your website. Purchasing and renewing SSL certificates is a costly and time-consuming process. On top…

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Part 2 of 5 from the series Deploying a Cheap, Secure, and Automated WordPress Website on Azure. Prerequisites:-Completed Part 1 where we deployed a WordPress site using Azure App Service. In this post, we will cover adding a custom domain to Azure and verifying it via Cloudflare DNS. We will then add an A record to Cloudflare so we can use a custom domain instead of the domain.azurewebsites.net address provided to use by Azure. To finish, we will add one…

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