I just bought a domain and am trying to set up HTTPS redirection on my R Plumber API. I made sure that the droplet IP is pointing to the domain and checked that it works. So currently I can access the plumber API over HTTP. I have an SSL Certificate on DO with my domain name. I tried using a Load Balancer but that didn’t work. Any guidance for how I would proceed?
I also tried using the “do_connect_https” function from the plumberDeploy package, but I keep getting the error “Error: Authentication with ssh server failed”
I would be happy to provide any more details if needed. Thank you in advance
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Hi, If you deployed your R Plumber API with plumberDeploy package, then you have nginx installed and configured as reverse proxy for your R Plumber API. The only things you have to do are:
- configure nginx server block to use SSL certificate
- open port TCP 443 in firewall for https connections.
Questions:
1. What address and port does the R API listen on ? Execute the command:
sudo netstat -tulpn | grep R
2. How do you access R API in a browser ? I mean, what do you type in an address bar of a browser to get your API (e.g. http://mydomain.com/RAPI) ?
3. Do you know where you have your SSL certificate files stored ? You need to know it to configure nginx server block.
4. You probably use ufw to configure a firewall. Check if ufw is active and the port TCP 443 is listed:
sudo ufw status
5. Do you have DO Cloud Firewall active and configured for your droplet ? Check in DO control panel - Networking - Firewalls - configured firewall (if any) - Droplets.
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