# How to renew ssl without using: ./launcher rebuild app

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-renew-ssl-without-using-launcher-rebuild-app/214717>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-renew-ssl-without-using-launcher-rebuild-app/214717 "2022-01-13T05:51:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-renew-ssl-without-using-launcher-rebuild-app/214717/2 "2022-01-13T08:37:48Z")

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The only reason they I know that you’d need to rebuild to get a new certificate is that your base image is too old and doesn’t have the new root certificate (that expired in October, I think).

I think that you need to rebuild.

It might be possible to contrive to upgrade the running container, but I think that I tried doing that a few times and failed.

And running an old version of Discourse isn’t a sustainable solution anyway.

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