# Cannot get past bootstrapping

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-get-past-bootstrapping/364284>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 30, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-get-past-bootstrapping/364284 "2025-04-30T19:27:43Z")\
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> [@tknospdr](#):
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> ./discourse-setup IS the bootstrap, right?

Well, sort of. It creates a `app.yml` and then runs `./launcher bootstrap app`.

If you’ve run it a bunch of times without DNS working right then you’ve hit rate limits with let’s encrypt. The easy solutions are to wait a week or to use a different domain name.

> [@tknospdr](#):
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> I created a dedicated A record and turned off proxy for that one.

And nothing else is running on that machine?

And when you ran discourse-setup it didn’t complain about not being able to connect to itself?

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