# Apache w/ SSL + Discourse: Next steps? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/apache-w-ssl-discourse-next-steps/158049 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [July 17, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apache-w-ssl-discourse-next-steps/158049 "2020-07-17T15:04:47Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 10
### Author: ![OrbitStorm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/orbitstorm/32/186582_2.png) [@OrbitStorm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OrbitStorm) #### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apache-w-ssl-discourse-next-steps/158049/10 "2020-07-18T01:50:08Z")
@fzngagan I’m not starting over and that tutorial is for CentOS, when I clearly stated in my post that I’m using Ubuntu. @EricGT Check out the solution I shared to _my own thread_ because finding support if you use anything other than Nginx or CentOS is virtually impossible — as evidenced by this thread where I’ve received no answers to my question but instead an off-topic debate about Apache-v-Nginx. > [@Discourse not loading with Apache and proxy redirect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-not-loading-with-apache-and-proxy-redirect/157512/8): > > Despite having every intention of moving on from Discourse given the utter lack of current documentation that isn’t hyper-focused on CentOS/Nginx, an incredibly generous and patient individual at DigitalOcean responded to a thread I had created there and after some trial and error, helped put together a simple-to-follow tutorial for prospective Discourse users with the same circumstances as mine. As a refresher, those circumstances are: Installing Discourse on the same server as Apache | Using… > [@Stephen](#): > > Not at all, some really _really_ large sites use nginx+php-fpm+wordpress. Tuned properly Nginx is **much** quicker. That very well may be the case but Apache is more widely supported. Discourse is the only forum software that essentially forces Nginx upon its users. This is why I’d prefer to stick with Apache because it’s more common, easier for new users, and support will be much easier to find. “Tuning” isn’t something I’m interested in. > [@neounix](#): > > Anyone and everyone who want to use Apache2 as a reverse proxy instead of nginx will be just fine! Yet the Discourse community actively discourages it and refuses to provide support for people who want to do that, with the exception of linking to unsupported tutorials. I’ve created multiple threads and asked even more questions but you’re the only one who has come remotely close to providing support (in a different thread) by sharing your configuration and as a novice I was expected to decipher and apply it to my own. Everything else has been “check out this outdated tutorial” or off-topic banter. 🤷‍♂️ --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/apache-w-ssl-discourse-next-steps/158049)._