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Rust Web Programming - Third Edition
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Rust Web Programming - Third Edition

by Maxwell Flitton
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
674 pages
15h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Configuring HTTPS with NGINX on AWS

When it comes to deploying our applications, a lot of tutorials and books go through simple deployments and smooth over the concept of encrypting traffic to and from the server using HTTPS. However, HTTPS is essential and usually the biggest hurdle that a developer must overcome to get their website or API out into the world. While this book’s title is Rust Web Programming, it is essential to dedicate a chapter to truly understanding how HTTPS works so that you can implement HTTPS locally and then on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. This chapter will cover the following topics:

  • What is HTTPS?
  • Implementing HTTPS locally with Docker Compose
  • Attaching a URL to our deployed application on AWS
  • Enforcing ...
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ISBN: 9781835887769