From 02af7cd3c100d6d21d62fadcfc52b045c3341d17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Parrish Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:49:25 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md with fork explination --- README.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index be184bf..82e15b8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ nginx-proxy sets up a container running nginx and [docker-gen][1]. docker-gen g 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: