# Discourse installation on intranet - bootstrap failed with exit code 17

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-installation-on-intranet-bootstrap-failed-with-exit-code-17/302014>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** unsupported-install\
**Created:** [April 2, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-installation-on-intranet-bootstrap-failed-with-exit-code-17/302014 "2024-04-02T10:17:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2024, 10:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-installation-on-intranet-bootstrap-failed-with-exit-code-17/302014/9 "2024-04-10T10:30:02Z")

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My guess is I that you don’t have certificates and nginx is failing. Your need to remove the ssl and let’s encrypt templates and build a new image. Then you’ll need a reverse proxy that has a certificate.

You might instead be able to use a certificate that you’ve generated yourself. I think there’s still a topic about how to do that (from before let’s encrypt existed).

You can look at the nginx logs to see the errors.

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