Hi all, just wondering if anyone knows how to make my site display over https with Digital Ocean hosting and DNS set elsewhere with a free certificate.
It’s currently working fine over standard http protocol, but says cant connect to server when i try https?
Hey Paul,
I’ve been experimenting a lot with DO/Docker/Node and the instructions here for SSL, I believe are current:
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Thanks Ken, I am a bit confused because I am not redirecting a single A record to the droplet but rather altering the domains name servers to the Digital Ocean ones, which i then assume means my free cPanel style SSL certificate is rendered useless on the primary hosting provider. Am i correct in my thinking?
The cert would have to come from the droplet since they are connected to servers, not dns, right? But also, I’m not convinced yet that setting up the dns with DO is mandatory – I’ve been meaning to test that out.
But back to the documented wappler way, you just point dns over to DO, and then use traefik for the cert from within wappler. That worked for me (until I tried to add a second container.)
Well im trying the documented way now, not quite working, been spinning in Wappler for about 5 minutes now with no output at all
But now the original host has a message saying they never altered the nameservers, and have to await an email acceptance from the domain registrar email, so no wonder nothing is working as expected, trying to fumble through it all now.
Ahhh, good times. I actually just reported a bug about docker “spinning” as well – if you choose traefik but not portainer, it spins forever…you can stop waiting. 
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Bahahah, thats exactly what i did, will choose both and see if it fixes it.