Dear UNIX Diary,

For a little project of our's, my homeskillet Adam and I decided to use the httpd that comes with OpenBSD on our box instead of Nginx. Upon transition, it didn't appear that anything served. Constant twiddling later, I pull it up in elinks to check on the status of the project while still logged into our box. For some reason, it worked in elinks. Same goes to the success on my end in eww. But yet the site would not load in Firefox. Most peculiar.

Turns out aforementioned homeskillet nabbed some certificates a la Let's Encrypt and the TLS shindig was throwing us for a loop. Protip for OpenBSD httpd users who want to use TLS: Make sure you configure it properly in /etc/httpd.conf, because the tls segment is a braced segment.


Tomorrow, I'll be tackling some more complicated parts of the project with the httpd. User directories, for example.