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  Amazon Lightsail makes it easy to secure your websites and applications with SSL/TLS using Lightsail load balancers. However, using a Lightsail load balancer might not generally be the right choice. Perhaps your site doesn't need the scalability or fault tolerance load balancers provide, or maybe you're optimizing for cost. In the latter case, you might consider using Let's Encrypt to obtain a free SSL certificate. If so, that's no problem. You can integrate those certificates with Lightsail instances. This tutorial shows you how to request a Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificate using Certbot, and integrate it with your WordPress instance using the Really Simple SSL plugin. Contents Step 1: Complete the prerequisites Step 2: Install Certbot on your Lightsail instance Step 3: Request a Let’s Encrypt SSL wildcard certificate Step 4: Add TXT records to your domain’s DNS zone in Lightsail Step 5: Confirm that the TXT records have propagated Step 6: Complete the Le...

Issue: Now that Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is enabled on my account, I can no longer access my email using Apple Mail. Environment: MFA enabled on the account Must have Mojave (10.14) or higher Cause: Some applications are not compatible with MFA, or require an app password to be created. Resolution: If your mac OS X is older than 10.14, you will not be able to access your email with Apple Mail once MFA is enabled on your account. However, you may still access your email from your preferred web browser at outlook.office365.com. If you have Mojave (10.14) or newer, set up an app password in your Office 365 account. Then add your email account as you normally would in Apple Mail, using your app password Important Notice: Microsoft will be ending support for basic authentication for EWS, EAS, IMAP, POP, and RPS to access Exchange Online on 10/13/20. (This change does not affect SMTP AUTH.) This means that the app password will no longer...