Developing and Hosting a Short Lived Website for a Free

Leverage free tools and technologies to build a secure web application with this practical course! Perfect for budget-constrained events or short-term projects, you'll gain hands-on experience in deploying a Spring Boot application to the cloud.

This course guides you through the entire process, starting with cloning a pre-existing Spring Boot project into the Eclipse IDE from a Git repository. You'll then deploy the application to an AWS EC2 instance, making it accessible online. (Note: You will need your own AWS credentials for this step.)

Security is paramount. We'll cover how to ensure secure communication for your publicly available web application by creating a self-signed certificate using the JDK. Understanding the limitations of self-signed certificates, we'll then transition to obtaining a free SSL certificate from ZeroSSL.

The course demonstrates how to use OpenSSL to convert the ZeroSSL certificate into the correct PKCS format required by your Spring Boot application. Finally, we'll acquire a free domain registration through Freenom to properly expose your application, ensuring it's accessible via a valid domain name.

Key skills you'll acquire:

• Spring Boot Development: Learn to work with a pre-built Spring Boot project.
• AWS Deployment: Deploy applications to an AWS EC2 instance.
• Self-Signed Certificates: Understand and create self-signed certificates for testing.
• SSL Certificate Management: Obtain and install free SSL certificates from ZeroSSL.
• OpenSSL: Utilize OpenSSL for certificate conversion.
• Git & Eclipse: Clone and manage projects using Git within the Eclipse IDE.
• Domain Registration: Register a free domain using Freenom.
• Security Best Practices: Implement secure communication for web applications.