# How to Set Up SSL in Discourse

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-up-ssl-in-discourse/56577
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [1월 30, 2017, 12:20오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-up-ssl-in-discourse/56577 "2017-01-30T12:20:32Z")
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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: [1월 30, 2017, 12:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-up-ssl-in-discourse/56577/2 "2017-01-30T12:29:38Z")

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Now that the how-to categories have been reorganized, I found it difficult to find this post

> [@Set up HTTPS support with Let's Encrypt](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-lets-encrypt/40709):
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> bookmark This is a guide for enabling HTTPS on an existing Discourse installation using Let’s Encrypt. It assumes prior installation without HTTPS enabled. person_raising_hand Required user level: System Administrator exclamation This guide is only for existing installs where HTTPS is not enabled. Following the [official setup guide](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md) 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?](https://letsencrypt.org/)bell I…

> [@Allow SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-ssl-https-for-your-discourse-docker-setup/13847):
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> This guide is likely out of date as there are now very few reasons not to use the built-in Let’s Encrypt certificate that Just Works.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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) defaults – a container configuration file at/var/discourse/containers/app.yml and Discourse docker is installed at: /var/discourse Buy a SS…

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