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Oracle Solaris 11.4 on OCI Apache HTTP Server, Solaris PF Firewall and Let's Encrypt HTTPS

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  Purpose and scope This runbook provides a repeatable procedure for deploying an Oracle Solaris 11.4 x86 compute instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, configuring the system timezone, installing and enabling Apache HTTP Server 2.4, opening TCP ports 80 and 443 through both OCI network controls and the Solaris PF firewall, publishing a static webpage, and obtaining a browser-trusted TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt with acme.sh. Intended audience ·          OCI administrators and cloud engineers. ·          Solaris administrators who need a small public web server. ·          Technical demo and lab environments where a reproducible Solaris 11.4 configuration is required. Primary implementation choices Layer Choice Reason Compute OCI Compute + Oracle Solaris 11.4 x86 Native OCI...