# Https with let's encrypt behind a vpn?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [March 27, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/https-with-lets-encrypt-behind-a-vpn/112726 "2019-03-27T15:16:07Z")\
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> [@tbeaudry](#):
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> The students all have computers with public IPs, so they will be busy and not hanging around on your lawn!

Oh. Hooray. (Then it was just the last university where I worked, and, I don’t work there anymore for some reasons.)

> [@tbeaudry](#):
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> The server that hosts the discourse will be used for research discussions with sensitive information on it.

Aha. If this is an Approved Project, it’s likely that your tech folks do have a cert that they can give you. Have you asked them? It might take a few tries to find the person who can do that, but I’d think that whoever you interface with on LDAP would know who that person is.

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