Site works, but its HTTPS certificate is self-signed

Warning recorded 68 times in PanelAlpha Engine deploys on Docker Compose, Dockerfile, Laravel and more. The deploy log below is the recorded failure output.

Seen68 times · 8 variants

Why it happens

The engine serves a self-signed certificate until a real one is requested for the domain. By default it does not request one from Let's Encrypt automatically, and it never retries on its own, so browsers show a certificate warning.

What the log looks like

Deploy log
Build finished successfully:#23 exporting to image#23 naming to docker.io/library/project-app:latest doneHealth check: HTTP 200 on port 8080PanelAlpha Online create failed: Sites limit reached for this service (HTTP 200)The site is served with a self-signed certificate issued by PanelAlpha.

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