Update README.md with fork explination

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David Parrish 2015-11-26 09:49:25 -05:00
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See [Automated Nginx Reverse Proxy for Docker][2] for why you might want to use this.
nginx-proxy-letsencrypt is a fork of nginx-proxy which adds Let's Encrypt support. Let's Encrypt allows multiple virtual hosts to have TLS certificates automatically created and renewed! The reason the jwilder/nginx-proxy was forked is because it seemed unlikely that the specific Let's Encrypt use case world be added to the more generic nginx-proxy project and the Let's Encrypt client does add some storage overhead. See [pull request](https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy/pull/300) for details about fork. See [Let's Encrypt section](#lets-encrypt) for configuration details.
### Usage
To run it: