# Installation produced broken, zero byte certificate

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-produced-broken-zero-byte-certificate/117466>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** letsencrypt\
**Created:** [May 11, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-produced-broken-zero-byte-certificate/117466 "2019-05-11T14:55:18Z")\
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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:** [May 11, 2019, 3:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-produced-broken-zero-byte-certificate/117466/2 "2019-05-11T15:09:30Z")

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Are both the let’s encrypt and ssl templates loaded in your app.yml?

The easiest thing is usually to delete (or rename) your app.yml, see that the container isn’t running, and run discourse-setup again

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