# 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, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trouble-enabling-https-for-hosted-instance/44162/3 "2016-05-12T19:13:59Z")

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I did see that, but I wasn’t sure exactly how to go about doing that. Do I need a new SSL certificate just for discourse or can I use the one that we’re using for our existing domain?

The other thing I should ask is if we choose not to use https, can we redirect users who try and access https to the regular https site?

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