# LetsEncrypt working without www, not with www

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 18, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letsencrypt-working-without-www-not-with-www/139004 "2020-01-18T06:17:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 19, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letsencrypt-working-without-www-not-with-www/139004/8 "2020-01-19T08:07:19Z")

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That isn’t a solution, the changes will be eradicated whenever templates are updated and for that reason alone is inadvisable.

If you want to modify files within the container use hooks in your app.yml

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