I have a working Discourse instance on a GCE instance.
I have email working through Mailjet by setting smtp_port=2525
I am now trying to enable HTTPS.
My reading of Setting up HTTPS support with Let's Encrypt
is that I just need to uncomment
#- "templates/web.ssl.template.yml"
#- "templates/web.letsencrypt.ssl.template.yml"
in app.yml and set LETSENCRYPT_ACCOUNT_EMAIL
to the email address I have registered with Mailjet,
which is the same as DISCOURSE_DEVELOPER_EMAILS
and the From:
address used by Discourse,
and then rebuild and restart Discourse with
sudo ./launcher rebuild app
After that LetsEncrypt/HTTPS should just work automagically if I understand the instructions correctly.
However I am finding that Discourse just becomes inaccessible after that.
It becomes accessible again if I undo the above changes and rebuild again.
Am I missing something?
Is there anything special needed on GCE?
I currently use the GCE external IP as DISCOURSE_HOSTNAME
,
which is working fine with regular HTTP.
Do I need to set up a DNS domain and hotname to wok with LetsEncrypt?