# Default domain
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 25, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052 "2019-12-25T22:10:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Gjithcka\_al](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gjithcka_al)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/1 "2019-12-25T22:10:17Z")
Dear friends, i have teied to install your platform and it’s very easy and useful, but i am facing some issues, i can name my maincdomain but just subdomains. For example, [forum.domain.com](http://forum.domain.com) meanwhile [domain.com](http://domain.com) doesn’t work. Can someone tell me about this problem? Thank you
im use cloudflare dns
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### Author:  [@danb35](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danb35)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/2 "2019-12-25T22:30:46Z")
That sounds like it’s working as designed. See the [install docs](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md):
> Already own a domain name? Great. Select a subdomain such as `discourse.example.com` or `talk.example.com` or `forum.example.com` for your Discourse instance.
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### Author:  [@Gjithcka\_al](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gjithcka_al)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/3 "2019-12-25T22:38:59Z")
> [@danb35](#):
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> Already own a domain name? Great. Select a subdomain such as `discourse.example`
I’m afraid what prevents this is ssl
since i have tested the installation many times
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### Author:  [@danb35](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danb35)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/4 "2019-12-25T22:49:24Z")
> [@Gjithcka\_al](#):
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> I’m afraid what prevents this is ssl
Then you’re going to need to explain, in a lot more detail, exactly what you’re doing, what you’re expecting to happen, what’s actually happening, and what makes you think SSL has anything to do with it. On my installation, I browse to domain.tld, it redirects to sub.domain.tld, and I’m good to go.
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### Author:  [@shaleedt](https://meta.discourse.org/u/shaleedt)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/5 "2019-12-25T22:53:34Z")
I have discourse installed on my main domain because the site is just a forum, nothing more so if your site is just a forum, i’d suggest installing it on your main domain and not a sub domain.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2019, 12:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/6 "2019-12-26T00:13:27Z")
> [@Gjithcka\_al](#):
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> i have tested the installation many times
Do you mean you’ve hit the Let’s Encrypt limit?
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### Author:  [@Gjithcka\_al](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gjithcka_al)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2019, 12:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/7 "2019-12-26T00:22:36Z")
Maybe that’s the reason,
is there any solution?
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### Author:  [@JimPas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JimPas)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2019, 2:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/8 "2019-12-26T02:23:36Z")
If you have hit the Let’s Encrypt limit, I’d suggest going to the their forum and ask for help. They can check your domain and subdomains and see what certificates you may have created, as well as failures to create certificates. In some cases, people have created valid certificates but they’re not installed. They can better guide to as to what is going on and how to get things working. Here’s the link:
> **[Help](https://community.letsencrypt.org/c/help/13)**
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> For help getting Let’s Encrypt certificates, create your own new topic in the Help category. Use the New Topic button in the forum to do this.
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### Author:  [@Gjithcka\_al](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Gjithcka_al)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2019, 2:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/9 "2019-12-26T02:29:15Z")
> [@JimPas](#):
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> If you have hit the Let’s Encrypt limit, I’d suggest going to the their forum and ask for help. They can check your domain and subdomains and see what certificates you may have created, as well as failures to create certificates. In some cases, people have created valid certificates but they’re not installed. They can better guide to as to what is going on and how to get things working. Here’s the link:
yeah Nice idea, thanks for your time !
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/defaults-domain/137052/10 "2020-01-25T02:29:37Z")
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