# Too many redirects after enabling https
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [July 14, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338 "2018-07-14T05:09:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@KevinWorkman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KevinWorkman)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/1 "2018-07-14T05:09:37Z")
I’m trying to enable https on an existing forum using this guide: [Set up HTTPS support with Let's Encrypt](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-lets-encrypt/40709)
I ran `./discourse-setup` and entered my email address for Let’s Encrypt, and then rebuilt the app.
However, now when I visit my server I’m getting this errors:
```plaintext
forum.happycoding.io redirected you too many times.
ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
```
I’ve manually inspected `app.yml` and it appears that all of my settings are correct. I’m not using cloudflare or anything.
Is there a step I’m missing? Is there something special I need to consider when running my discourse on a subdomain?
As always, thanks for your time, and I appreciate any help anybody can offer!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2018, 5:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/2 "2018-07-14T05:31:07Z")
I’m not sure what the problem could be. Could you try the unannounced discourse doctor and see if it sheds light?
```
git pull
./discourse-doctor
```
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### Author:  [@KevinWorkman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KevinWorkman)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2018, 5:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/3 "2018-07-14T17:30:23Z")
As always it turns out that I’m an idiot. I had some upper-case letters in my domain (`forum.HappyCoding.io`). Modifying the `app.yml` file to only user lower-case letters (`forum.happycoding.io`) solved the problem.
I noticed this when I looked at the output for `disocurse-doctor`, so thanks very much!
Btw, I found a similar thread with a similar problem [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-setting-up-lets-encrypted/55346).
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/4 "2018-07-14T17:44:11Z")
Great! That’s what it’s supposed to do!
Was it just printing the configuration information or was it something else?
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### Author:  [@KevinWorkman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/KevinWorkman)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/5 "2018-07-14T19:28:08Z")
Yeah, the `discourse-doctor` tool printed out the config data, which is where I saw the upper-case letters. That coupled with seeing [this post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-setting-up-lets-encrypted/55346) and remembering encountering [another problem](https://meta.discourse.org/t/embedded-comments-iframe-height/51129) with upper-case letters finally clicked everything into place in my brain.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 14, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/6 "2018-07-14T21:44:30Z")
Maybe you can extend doctor to warn, or we can add a stop warning in setup, when people put uppercase characters in the domain name?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/7 "2018-07-15T05:20:15Z")
Or launcher could downcase the domain main name.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/8 "2018-07-15T08:04:04Z")
Sure, whatever works and is easy!
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2018, 8:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/too-many-redirects-after-enabling-https/92338/9 "2018-08-14T08:04:20Z")
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