# Site down after enabling SSL

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-down-after-enabling-ssl/46778>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [July 3, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-down-after-enabling-ssl/46778 "2016-07-03T18:51:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![P16](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b19c9b/32.png) [@P16](https://meta.discourse.org/u/P16)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/site-down-after-enabling-ssl/46778/18 "2016-07-05T06:16:44Z")

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I solved the issue by removing the url redirect. The bare redirect was creating a loop due to nginx. Hope this helps someone in future.

A big thank you to @cpradio and @fefrei for their help!

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