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+**Development efforts have moved to the [docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion](https://github.com/JrCs/docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion) project. docker-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion doesn't require a fork of nginx-proxy in order to register Let's Encrypt certificates.**
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 ![nginx 1.9.6](https://img.shields.io/badge/nginx-1.9.6-brightgreen.svg) ![License MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg) [![Build](https://circleci.com/gh/dmp1ce/nginx-proxy-letsencrypt.svg?&style=shield&circle-token=cd873b9ebad6424218c4dee8e8e2344366920dde)](https://circleci.com/gh/dmp1ce/nginx-proxy-letsencrypt) [![](https://badge.imagelayers.io/dmp1ce/nginx-proxy-letsencrypt:latest.svg)](https://imagelayers.io/?images=dmp1ce/nginx-proxy-letsencrypt:latest 'Get your own badge on imagelayers.io')
 
 nginx-proxy sets up a container running nginx and [docker-gen][1].  docker-gen generates reverse proxy configs for nginx and reloads nginx when containers are started and stopped.