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+title: "selfhosting my own website"
+pubDate: 'May 06 2024'
+description: ""
+draft: false
+---
+As of the 13th of March 2024, `kjelsrud.dev` is hosted on own server, **eastblue <3**. This was such a milestone for myself, and I'm really proud of it! 🎉 Finally, I really own my website a 100% and I learned so much from the process! All from gaining more knowledge on GitHub Actions to learning how Caddy works. 📚
+
+It all began with setting up Caddy, since the VM on my server was already up and running. Configuring Caddy was surpisingly straightforward, even with a lot of help/inspiration from [**Mike Valstars**](https://valstar.dev/) blogpost on [***Simple static site self-hosting for Astro with Caddy***](https://valstar.dev/blog/2022-09-06-astro-caddy-hosting/). Here's a snippet of my Caddyfile:
+
+```
+kjelsrud.dev {
+    tls {EMAIL}
+    encode zstd gzip
+
+    root * /var/www/kjelsrud.dev/
+
+    file_server {
+        precompressed br gzip
+    }
+
+    handle_errors {
+        rewrite * /404.html
+        file_server
+    }
+
+    log {
+        output file /var/log/caddy/access.log
+    }
+}
+```
+
+When this file was saved and the DNS was pointing to my server, it was supposed to work just fine. But, when checking out the log with `sudo systemctl status caddy`, I saw the HTTPS certificate was failing. Not understanding why and searching for a while I contacted by friend, [**Mathias Haugsbø**](https://mathiash98.github.io/), asking if he knew what the error could be.
+
+He gave me some tips on using `dig` and `nmap` to get info on the DNS and network for the server. Using this, we saw that the ports `80` and `443` was marked as *filtered* when they should say *open* for a server where everything is good. Well, the ports weren't portforwarded... I forgot to do it hehe lesson learned! 😅
+
+Next up was automating the deployment process using GitHub Actions! This setup was easily done, with some inspiration from the workflow for [**fribyte.no**](https://github.com/fribyte-code/fribyte.no). Now, the website could seamlessly build and deploy whenever changes were pushed!
+
+In the future, I might even containerize my website using Docker, but we'll see!
+
+Again, a big thanks to both Mike, for writing the blogpost, and Mathias for helping me understanding Caddy and the setup a bit more!
+
+> *PS: I know this is over a month ago, but the bachelor thesis and sunbathing at the beach is taking up a lot of time..* ☀️
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