# My site is down with a weird SSL notification

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-site-is-down-with-a-weird-ssl-notification/63246
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [May 24, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-site-is-down-with-a-weird-ssl-notification/63246 "2017-05-24T00:14:05Z")
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### Author: ![Yassine\_Yousfi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yassine_yousfi/32/195913_2.png) [@Yassine\_Yousfi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yassine_Yousfi)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/my-site-is-down-with-a-weird-ssl-notification/63246/9 "2017-05-24T01:11:17Z")

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I followed these instructions from sam.

> [@Allow SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-ssl-https-for-your-discourse-docker-setup/13847):
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> This guide is likely out of date as there are now very few reasons not to use the built-in Let’s Encrypt certificate that Just Works. See also: 2023-04-10 @pfaffman says: This is left here mostly for historical purposes. So you’d like to enable SSL for your Docker-based Discourse setup? Let’s do it! This guide assumes you used all the [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) defaults – a container configuration file at/var/discourse/containers/app.yml and Discourse docker is installed at: /var/discourse Buy a SS…

Yep, will be waiting.

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