# Unable To Connect/Connection Refused due to https certificates

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-connect-connection-refused-due-to-https-certificates/51276>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [8 באוקטובר,‏ 2016,‏ 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-connect-connection-refused-due-to-https-certificates/51276 "2016-10-08T23:52:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![GregoryMatthews](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/gregorymatthews/32/120656_2.png) [@GregoryMatthews](https://meta.discourse.org/u/GregoryMatthews)\
**Post date:** [8 באוקטובר,‏ 2016,‏ 11:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-connect-connection-refused-due-to-https-certificates/51276/1 "2016-10-08T23:52:43Z")

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We successfully installed Discourse through DigitalOcean using the following guide:

[discourse/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md at main · discourse/discourse · GitHub](http://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-cloud.md)

Our DNS is fully propagated, and we also installed our SSL CERTS per the following guide:

> [@Allow SSL / HTTPS for your Discourse Docker setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allowing-ssl-https-for-your-discourse-docker-setup/13847):
>
> This guide is likely out of date as there are now very few reasons not to use the built-in Let’s Encrypt certificate that Just Works. See also: 2023-04-10 @pfaffman says: This is left here mostly for historical purposes. So you’d like to enable SSL for your Docker-based Discourse setup? Let’s do it! This guide assumes you used all the [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) defaults – a container configuration file at/var/discourse/containers/app.yml and Discourse docker is installed at: /var/discourse Buy a SS…

When browsing to our Discourse installation via IP or domain name, we get the following message:

This site can’t be reached

```
XX.XX.XX.XX refused to connect.
Try:
Checking the connection
Checking the proxy and the firewall
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

```

What could be the problem?

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