### Author:  [@spectre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spectre)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 12:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/1 "2022-10-21T00:38:55Z")
```plaintext
FAILED
--------------------
Pups::ExecError: if [-z "$LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL"]; then echo "LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL ENV variable is required and has not been set."; exit 1; fi failed with return #
Location of failure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/2.7.0/gems/pups-1.1.1/lib/pups/exec_command.rb:117:in `spawn'
exec failed with the params {"cmd"=>["if [-z \"$LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL\"]; then echo \"LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL ENV variable is required and has not been set.\"; exit 1; fi", "/bin/bash -c \"if [[! \\\"$LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL\\\" =~ ([^@]+)@([^\\.]+) ]]; then echo \\\"LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL is not a valid email address\\\"; exit 1; fi\""]}
bootstrap failed with exit code 1
**FAILED TO BOOTSTRAP** please scroll up and look for earlier error messages, there may be more than one.
```
Nothing was up and this was the only error..! What is happening here??? Why does it have to be this much complicated??
Respect,
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/2 "2022-10-21T01:11:44Z")
You haven’t added a LETSENCRYPT Account email.
Try running `./discourse-setup` again to reconfigure.
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### Author:  [@spectre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spectre)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 1:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/3 "2022-10-21T01:49:58Z")
> [@darkpixlz](#):
>
> You haven’t added a LETSENCRYPT Account email.
You were right bro and I realized that while reading over and over the message and I did set and email and things went smooth this time but page says;
**Secure Connection Failed**
An error occurred during a connection to [meta.mypage.com](http://meta.mypage.com). PR\_END\_OF\_FILE\_ERROR
- The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
- Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
What to do now with this on the front page of my [meta.mypage.com](http://meta.mypage.com)??
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### Author:  [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/4 "2022-10-21T01:54:19Z")
I think that’s not a Discourse issue.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 2:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/5 "2022-10-21T02:26:09Z")
How many times did you try to rebuild this instance?
Have you tried a different browser to Firefox?
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### Author:  [@spectre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spectre)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 3:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/6 "2022-10-21T03:05:24Z")
I’ve been trying several times with same error message!!
Ohhhhh, I get it 🙄 It must be the SSLs I pulled giving wrong output!
So, how long do I have to wait for this to clear out and things work out normal?? 😛
Thanks for bringing it to my attention dude! +1 rep added 🙂
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/7 "2022-10-21T14:07:12Z")
> [@spectre](#):
>
> So, how long do I have to wait for this to clear out and things work out normal?
I think it’s a week. If you’re not in love with your subdomain, and you get your DNS right, you can just try again on the new subdomain.
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### Author:  [@spectre](https://meta.discourse.org/u/spectre)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/8 "2022-10-21T21:16:25Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> If you’re not in love with your subdomain
Not really 😃
If I can get that subdomain in a click and done everything related with it. Can I then just change/ replace the yml setting only with new hostname, smtp, and email … etc?? Would it work and site will be up and running once app rebuilt??? I’m guessing yes, but need to ask an expert to believe 👀
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2022, 3:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/failed-to-bootstrap-2/242544/9 "2022-10-22T03:07:34Z")
Pretty much, although there are some post rebuild steps for existing communities which rename.