Tutorial: Securing your GitLab Pages with TLS and Let's Encrypt

The text provides a comprehensive guide on adding HTTPS to a GitLab Pages site using Let's Encrypt, emphasizing the importance of TLS/SSL for security, including authentication, data integrity, and encryption. It highlights the push for universal TLS adoption, noting Google's use of HTTPS compliance for website ranking since 2014. The guide details the process of obtaining a free TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt, configuring a static blog with Jekyll, and uploading the project to GitLab. It explains how to handle custom domain TLS certificates by manually setting up Let's Encrypt and creating necessary challenge files to verify domain ownership. The text also covers redirecting traffic to HTTPS and ensuring compatibility with search engines and internal links. Additionally, it discusses potential issues with JavaScript-based redirects and encourages contributing to GitLab's support for Let's Encrypt.

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