How to Set Up SSL in Discourse

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

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Set up HTTPS support with Let's Encrypt

This is a guide for enabling HTTPS on an existing Discourse installation using Let’s Encrypt. It assumes prior installation without HTTPS enabled. Required user level: System Administrator 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? I…

Allow SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup

This guide is likely out of date as there are now very few reasons not to use the built-in Let’s Encrypt certificate that Just Works. See also: 2023-04-10 @pfaffman says: This is left here mostly for historical purposes. 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 SS…