# Minimum needed to get LetsEncrypt working on a GCE instance

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 21, 2017, 4:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/minimum-needed-to-get-letsencrypt-working-on-a-gce-instance/64853 "2017-06-21T04:43:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2017, 4:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/minimum-needed-to-get-letsencrypt-working-on-a-gce-instance/64853/4 "2017-06-21T04:48:45Z")

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Because when you uncomment the `web.ssl.template.yml` it redirects all HTTP traffic to use HTTPS. Known issue but not trivial to fix.

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