How to Set Up SSL in Discourse

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

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Setting up HTTPS support with Let's Encrypt

This guide is only for existing installs where HTTPS is not enabled. Following the official setup guide automatically enables HTTPS by default. So you’d like to add https to your Discourse absolutely free, courtesy of our friends at Let’s Encrypt? Is everything else on your site ready for HTTPS? Before you start, please bear in mind that for HTTPS to work properly, every single resource on the page must be HTTPS compatible. Consider your CDN, your social logins, your…

Advanced Setup Only: Allowing SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup

So you’d like to enable SSL for your Docker-based Discourse setup? Let’s do it! This guide assumes you used all the standard install defaults – a container configuration file at/var/discourse/containers/app.yml and Discourse docker is installed at: /var/discourse Buy a SSL Certificate Go to namecheap or some other SSL cert provider and purchase a SSL cert for your domain. Follow all the step documented by them to generate private key and CSR and finally get your cert. I used the apache defau…