I think so. I’m pretty experienced working on servers, but I haven’t been very active since Let’s Encrypt came out, so I just assumed that there would be a section on getting a cert in the documentation if that was something that would work out of the box. Since there wasn’t, I assumed I would have to do it in another step. There’s nothing on that page that evens mentions Let’s Encrypt except for the output from the ./disource-setup command. Maybe mention under the Edit Discourse Configuration (before the command) mention that if you want https, then you’ll have to put something in the Let’s Encrypt field. I knew to look on that page for https, but there were not https string matches (when I ctrl+f), so I assumed it wasn’t there. I searched for “https” and “cert”, and since it wasn’t there, I assumed it was separate.
And honestly, if I worked on website hosting more frequently, I probably would have seen Let’s Encrypt and immediately known what was going on. Maybe if there was a “what you’ll need” section, that included an email associated with Let’s Encrypt?
I don’t want this to come off as insulting, the documentation is great, and it was human error (my human error) that caused my issue.