# Removing Let's Encrypt from installation choice
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-lets-encrypt-from-installation-choice/92366
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [14 juli 2018 om 19:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-lets-encrypt-from-installation-choice/92366 "2018-07-14T19:25:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@KWCT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KWCT)
#### Post date: [14 juli 2018 om 19:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-lets-encrypt-from-installation-choice/92366/1 "2018-07-14T19:25:20Z")
Hi there,
Due to a copy/paste mess up when running **./discourse-setup** on a new installation the last option is:
```
Let's Encrypt : SMTP username
```
I can’t get rid of this even when I re-run the setup. I guess that I’ll have to edit some file or something. Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [14 juli 2018 om 21:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-lets-encrypt-from-installation-choice/92366/2 "2018-07-14T21:05:23Z")
I believe that the prompt says that you can enter “n” to turn it off.
Edit: But what it says is “`Enter 'OFF' to disable`”.
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### Author:  [@KWCT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KWCT)
#### Post date: [14 juli 2018 om 22:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-lets-encrypt-from-installation-choice/92366/3 "2018-07-14T22:10:10Z")
Thanks Jay, there is an “n” option, but that is just to “try again” - that still goes through the same questions without offering the Let’s Encrypt one - it’s always auto-populated for me.
I have just noticed that there is an error though after I’m asked for my SMTP Password this line is shown:
```
./discourse-setup: line 413: [: SMTP: binary operator expected
```
I guess the data that was copy/pasted in earlier has overwritten some important lines. I’m inexperienced with linux, but I’ll see if I can clean that up. I’d ideally like to wipe it all and start again from scratch at this stage.
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### Author:  [@KWCT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KWCT)
#### Post date: [14 juli 2018 om 22:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-lets-encrypt-from-installation-choice/92366/4 "2018-07-14T22:15:44Z")
Ah, I guess I can just start all over again. I’ve just done this and it has allowed me to put in all new info.
```
rm -r /var/discourse
sudo -s
mkdir /var/discourse
git clone https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker.git /var/discourse
```
Hopefully there are no long term affects from doing it this way, but it seems to be reinstalling just fine now. Thanks for your help.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [16 juli 2018 om 10:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/removing-lets-encrypt-from-installation-choice/92366/5 "2018-07-16T10:46:31Z")
> [@KWCT](#):
>
> Thanks Jay, there is an “n” option, but that is just to “try again” - that still goes through the same questions without offering the Let’s Encrypt one - it’s always auto-populated for me.
It was the weekend and I was on my phone. This is the prompt I was talking about (it’s “OFF” not “n”):
> [@](#):
>
> Let’s Encrypt account email? (Enter ‘OFF’ to disable.) [sdf@sdf.com]:
Also, this output:
```plaintext
./discourse-setup: line 413: [: SMTP: binary operator expected
```
Hmm. That makes me think that you had an old version. Was this a recent install?
The way that you started over blew away your database, which I hope was ok.
But if anyone else stumbles here, it might be helpful to know that this would delete just the `app.yml` and let you start again with the config file, but not wipe your data.
```bash
cd /var/discourse
rm containers/app.yml
./discourse-setup
```