What did you use before? You might be able to use many of the same things, or find open-source alternatives that work the same.

You can try out most linux distributions without even installing them. Just plug in the usb, boot from it and choose not to install and you can play around with it. You can try multiple linux oses this way before considering an installation. I’d recommend trying Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Bazzite (if you’re a gamer).

There are some extra steps you’ll need to take in the BIOS, as in my experience modern computers tend to not have usb booting as the first priority at start up, so it just boots straight into windows no matter what.

I tried ktlint, it was having trouble handling libraries and kept giving me no reference errors for library imports.

I got the Kotlin compiler using sdkman, the closest thing to that command I found was: kotlinc -Xreturn-value-checker=full $(find . -name ‘*.kt’)

It doesn’t really work, it just gives errors for every single import that comes from a library (libKTX in my case)

The debian/ubuntu package for the Kotlin compiler is super outdated, so I’ll have to find a way to get it

I don’t have any firewalls, and https://206.x.x.x and the internal IP one both worked.

The external IP is properly bringing me to the portfolio, its just the subdomain that now seems to be blocked.

It does. I think my subdomain is being blocked by ISPs.

I’ve done further testing with external network connections. I’m getting a Blocked hosts error, it seems my subdomain is being targeted by ISPs.

I get a 206 address that matches my server’s public IP. My laptop is on the same network as the portfolio, but I did test external connections using a mobile hotspot, which resulted in me successfully connecting to the IP address with telnet, but not being able to connect to the domain name. On my phone’s browser, while on data, I was able to access my portfolio website using the public IP address as the URL, rather than the domain name.

I don’t think it is, but its hard to tell for sure.

Yeah the DNS’ public IP matches my server’s. The access logs have some connections from the SSL validation and from when I successfully connected using the public IP address. The error logs are empty.

I did it this way because I didn’t think a randomly generated domain name from cloudflare would be professional enough. I might have to go with that if I can’t get this working though.

Yes it does.

The error was: ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT. I also got an ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED earlier.

Yes, that’s what I did.

I can’t connect to the domain at all. I think the certificate problem was because I was connecting with the IP address rather than the domain name.

I get ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT when trying to connect to it. I don’t get any error logs on the server itself. I also got an ERROR_CONNECTION_REFUSED earlier.

I got my SSL certs from running certbot. I don’t use DDNS.

I think they plan on making it ship with windows by default at some point, so perhaps it’ll be in future versions of Windows Server and you won’t have to add it.