# External Host with SSL Backend

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/external-host-with-ssl-backend/8325>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** file, letsencrypt-acme\
**Created:** [October 26, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/external-host-with-ssl-backend/8325 "2020-10-26T14:17:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![matzeeg3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@matzeeg3](https://community.traefik.io/u/matzeeg3)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/external-host-with-ssl-backend/8325/1 "2020-10-26T14:17:44Z")

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Hi everybody,  
i now play around a little while with traefik and i really like it.  
but now i have a little problem. i try to forward traffic to a backend witch is https at this moment. so i build a file witch is like that:

```auto
http:
  routers:
    unifi:
      rule: Host(`xxx.xxxx.xx`)
      entryPoints:
        - "web-secure"
      service: service1
      tls:
        certresolver: myhttpchallenge

  services:
    service1:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: "https://192.168.xxx.xx:8443"

```

so but i have the problam that i am not able to reach the desternation app.  
what did i do wrong?  
can somebody help me?  
thanks and kind regards  
Matze

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**Author:** ![matzeeg3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@matzeeg3](https://community.traefik.io/u/matzeeg3)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/external-host-with-ssl-backend/8325/2 "2020-10-26T22:43:49Z")

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For everybody how is searching for a solution.  
add this to your container command or config:

- --serverstransport.insecureskipverify=true`  
than the backend will work fine!