# הפורום ירד, ואז שגיאת חידוש תעודה בנוגע לתצורת חומת אש?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-went-down-then-certificate-renew-error-regarding-firewall-configuration/224261
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [14 באפריל,‏ 2022,‏ 11:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-went-down-then-certificate-renew-error-regarding-firewall-configuration/224261 "2022-04-14T11:37:16Z")
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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: [14 באפריל,‏ 2022,‏ 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-went-down-then-certificate-renew-error-regarding-firewall-configuration/224261/2 "2022-04-14T13:23:31Z")

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> [@Canapin](#):
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> Since I have reached a rate limit, does that mean that my forum is basically down for a week and I can do nothing about it? 😬

The solution that I have used is to add a second hostname (e.g., www, but it could be anything) as suggested in [Setting up Let’s Encrypt with Multiple Domains](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-let-s-encrypt-with-multiple-domains/56685), but I believe that there have been some changes to the templates that cause those instructions not to work. What I did for another site a couple of days ago was to edit `/etc/runit/1.d/letsencrypt` and add `-d newdomain` in the places that you see `-d realdomain`. Then make sure that the new domain is pointed to your server and then run `/etc/runit/1.d/letsencrypt`.

You may also need to open port 80. My understanding is that it’s not needed when there is a valid cert, but you don’t have a valid cert, so I think it needs to read from port 80 to get things started. There is no downside to having port 80 open, as some people might try to access with http:// and if you have port 80 open they can be redirected to https.

I’ll work on updating those instructions, but I have a moving truck arriving tomorrow and should really be getting ready for that rather than posting on meta anyway. 🙂

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