SSL certificate chain resolver

When you purchase an SSL certificate from a certificate authority, in most cases it is signed not by the root certificate of this authority, but by an intermediate certificate(s). The path from your certificate through those intermediates and up to the root is called a certificate chain. While browsers can resolve those chains by downloading certificates from sources specified in them, the whole chain except for the root cert is better to be included in the response your server sends during TLS connection.

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Gogs: setting up self-hosted GitHub clone

Forget scripto-Perlo-C porridge to setup a web interface for Git! Forget installing thousands of dependencies to setup your own repository hosting! Gogs is here to make your life easier!

Gogs is a GitHub clone written in Go, which you can host on your own server. It’s a web interface to Git repositories plus a simple bug tracker. Gogs is very easy to install and use.

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