If your hosting provider does not easily offer SSL certificate provisioning for your machine, you can use the -autossl flag or AUTO_SSL environment variable to automatically provision SSL certificates to the specified domain and redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS.

The flag accepts a domain name as an argument. For example:

./medama start -autossl example.com

This feature requires the server to run on ports 80 and 443. The domain MUST be publicly accessible and resolve to the server using A/AAAA records.

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FAQ

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Do I need root privileges to bind to ports 80 and 443?

On Linux, you may not have permission to bind to ports 80 and 443. You can use the following command to allow the binary to bind to these ports without requiring root privileges:

sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /path/to/your/binary