# Trouble enabling https for hosted instance

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-enabling-https-for-hosted-instance/44162>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 12, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-enabling-https-for-hosted-instance/44162 "2016-05-12T18:55:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![AlphaWolfSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@AlphaWolfSam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AlphaWolfSam)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 6:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-enabling-https-for-hosted-instance/44162/1 "2016-05-12T18:55:05Z")

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Hey there! We’re relatively new to discourse and my boss has given me the task of enabling https for Discourse. I turned on “use https” but I didn’t have much success… nothing seemed to change and I reach this error page when trying to access our forum using https:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/7/d7eaea6d171d9e65b7edab136642a040eaf1b4c4.png)

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you! 😃

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