# Getting error when setting up Let's Encrypt SSL on GCP

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [November 29, 2017, 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-error-when-setting-up-lets-encrypt-ssl-on-gcp/75007 "2017-11-29T11:52:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Antichrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/antichrist/32/159976_2.png) [@Antichrist](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Antichrist)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 12:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/getting-error-when-setting-up-lets-encrypt-ssl-on-gcp/75007/11 "2019-10-22T12:21:23Z")

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For other people who see this in the future and have the same problem.  
I had to enable the port through firewall on Ubuntu  
sudo ufw allow 443/tcp

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