# After activating HTTPS Discourse doesn´t work

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**Created:** [October 24, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-activating-https-discourse-doesn-t-work/206907 "2021-10-24T17:45:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![ITAS-Isti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/87869e/32.png) [@ITAS-Isti](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ITAS-Isti)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2021, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/after-activating-https-discourse-doesn-t-work/206907/1 "2021-10-24T17:45:38Z")

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Hallo,

after activating Lets Enrypt Templates and rebuilding Discourse nothing works:

NGINX gives a cryptical error:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/7/478398bb67360f3c8a89842c4ca727db0a751983.jpeg)

The strange thing is: there is no nginx directory in /ETC

These templates are active:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/3/d3106ac0ef04618b9f71703f6ffa542781b8a916.jpeg)

These are the settings, the app has been rebuilt with

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/1/7114f3781c61b8dd9cddc0fd7de892a286a25c56.jpeg)

What can be the reason of this issues?  
I think the cert should be issued for the hostname: [discourse.itas-karlsruhe.de](http://discourse.itas-karlsruhe.de)

I have already checked with the launcher if the app really runs … Yeah, it does run …

I.

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