# Error in starting traefik with https

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/error-in-starting-traefik-with-https/3162>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** file, docker\
**Created:** [November 26, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/error-in-starting-traefik-with-https/3162 "2019-11-26T00:18:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![sisuser1987](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@sisuser1987](https://community.traefik.io/u/sisuser1987)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/error-in-starting-traefik-with-https/3162/5 "2019-11-26T19:44:11Z")

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This link has been helpful to me for https. As Idez mentioned, I still have to explore providers.docker.tls

> **[Trouble understanding how traefik picks up a custom SSL certificate for a domain](https://community.traefik.io/t/trouble-understanding-how-traefik-picks-up-a-custom-ssl-certificate-for-a-domain/1867)**
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> I am having trouble understanding the relation between the router and the provided SSL ceritifcate files. How traefik knows which certificate to choose for a particular domain. I have got following configuration but traefik is providing a default...

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