# Failed to automatically register with Discourse ID **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-automatically-register-with-discourse-id/403951 **Category:** Self-hosting **Created:** [May 27, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-automatically-register-with-discourse-id/403951 "2026-05-27T20:04:11Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 1
### Author: ![itoutsider](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itoutsider/32/556113_2.png) [@itoutsider](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itoutsider) #### Post date: [May 27, 2026, 8:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-automatically-register-with-discourse-id/403951/1 "2026-05-27T20:04:11Z")
Howdy, Fresh like a newborn to the discourse world and trying to give it a whirl. I’ve setup a brand new debian 13 VM and have a custom dns entry setup through cloudflare. I’ve gone through the setup and first ran into Let’s Encrypt and the whole port 80 callback. I moved the cert process to acme.sh and have that all sorted along with the template entry for cloudflare. Problem I’m running into now is a failed setup after deploying with the following message: > enable\_discourse\_id: Failed to automatically register with Discourse ID. This could be due to network connectivity issues, firewall restrictions, or the Discourse ID service being unreachable. Please check server logs for more details or contact support. > > You have opted to skip setting up email for now. Unfortunately due to the error message above, the setup cannot continue. Please report this issue on [meta.discourse.org](https://meta.discourse.org/). There is nothing preventing outbound comms on this VM as it was updated and config pulled from the external with no issues. I’ve checked the container logs and there are no errors of any kind. Interesting enough, I can add an invalid or valid URI after the base URL and get to the login/signup page or the regular 404 as applicable. Sign up and such would work if I had SMTP configured, but I don’t and don’t really want to mess with that. Any info or assistance would be appreciated on where to go next to validate/confirm the Discord ID setup to get this functional. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-automatically-register-with-discourse-id/403951)._