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Start the service immediately:\n    - `sudo systemctl start mfrssreader-server.service`\n\n1. Check if the service is running:\n    - `sudo systemctl status mfrssreader-server.service`\n\n1. Check the logs.\n    View the logs (stdout) using:\n        - `sudo tail -f /var/log/mfrssreader-server/rss.log`\n\n    View the error logs (stderr) using:\n        - `sudo tail -f /var/log/mfrssreader-server/rss.err`\n\n### Deploying\n\nTo deploy, assuming the repo is cloned in `~/motherfucking-rss-reader/` and the setup above is done:\n- `~/motherfucking-rss-reader/deploy.sh`\n\n### Enabling HTTPS\n\n#### Certificates\n\nCertificates are created using https://certbot.eff.org/. Follow the instructions there to generate a certificate.\n\n- Certificate is saved at: `/etc/letsencrypt/live/motherfuckingrssreader.com/fullchain.pem`\n- Key is saved at: `/etc/letsencrypt/live/motherfuckingrssreader.com/privkey.pem`\n\n#### nginx setup\n\n\u003e [!NOTE]\n\u003e .NET's `HttpClient` doesn't support HTTPS on Linux. Therefore we need nginx as a front end with SSL and the SimpleRssServer as non-SSL. See also this [GitHub discussion](https://github.com/dotnet/WatsonWebserver/discussions/90).\n\nSetup\n\n```\n --Client--             ---------Server--------------\n|          |           |                             |\n| Browser  | --------\u003e | nginx  --\u003e  SimpleRssServer |\n|          |  Request  | :443        :8000           |\n ----------             -----------------------------\n```\n\n1. Install nginx according to the [instructions](http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html)\n2. Copy content of `./server-conf/nginx.conf` to `/etc/nginx/nginx.conf`.\n3. 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