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Merge pull request #218 from MadMooAU/patch-1

Fixes and warnings added to "First Steps" step two and three
André Peters 8 years ago
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      docs/first_steps.md

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docs/first_steps.md

@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ This is just an example of how to obtain certificates with certbot. There are se
 wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto -O /usr/local/sbin/certbot && chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/certbot
 ```
 
-2\. Make sure you set `HTTP_BIND=0.0.0.0` and `HTTP_PORT=80` in `mailcow.conf` or setup a reverse proxy to enable connections to port 80. If you changed HTTP_BIND, then restart Nginx:
+2\. Make sure you set `HTTP_BIND=0.0.0.0` and `HTTP_PORT=80` in `mailcow.conf` or setup a reverse proxy to enable connections to port 80. If you changed HTTP_BIND, then rebuild Nginx:
 ``` bash
-docker-compose restart nginx-mailcow
+docker-compose up -d
 ```
 
 3\. Request the certificate with the webroot method:
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ certbot certonly \
     --email you@example.org \
     --agree-tos
 ```
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+**Remember to replace the example.org domain with your own domain, this command will not work if you dont.**
     
 4\. Create hard links to the full path of the new certificates. Assuming you are still in the mailcow root folder:
 ``` bash