Automated Free Certificates with Let's Encrypt

@Dmitriy

I have a rather basic question but may also be of interest to the community.

I am running an PC Apache http web server on port 80 on my local domain, and https on 443.
On the same PC I am also running Blynk local server v0.24.3

I need to keep my Apache web server on port 80 and 443 respectively.
How would I configure my port forwarding to also support Blynk http and https server on same PC ?

@mars There is no way to do that. You need either have Blynk on port 80 or Apache on port 80. In case you can’t make Blynk run on port 80 you need to manual generate certs and manage them via own scripts/flows.

mmmm thought you might say that :frowning2:

There are instructions for Apache and Let’s Encrypt in web. But yeah, it wouldn’t be simple.

any tips instructions on port forwarding for people in the community using Windows PC for their local server as Windows does not use iptables

if anyone in the community can help that would be great… i.e. setting up automated free certificates with Let’s Encrypt with local versions of blynk server running on Windows 10.

Well, there actually is a way to do this, but it’s very advanced and it would require a reverse proxy like a NetScaler and a static IP on your WAN interface.

A NetScaler, or any reverse proxy for that matter, can route different domainnames to seperate servers. E.g. blynk.somedomain.com would be forwarded to you Blynk server and web.somedomain.com would be forwarded to your apache instance. Both could be running on the same machine I think, but it would be easier to run it on separate machines.