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 ### Missing Certificate
 
-If HTTPS is enabled for a virtual host but its certificate is missing, nginx-proxy will:
-* configure nginx to use the default certificate (`default.crt` with `default.key`) and return a 500 error,
+If no matching certificate is found for a given virtual, nginx-proxy will:
+* configure nginx to use the default certificate (`default.crt` with `default.key`) and return a 500 error for HTTPS,
 * force enable HTTP; i.e. `HTTPS_METHOD` will switch to `noredirect` if it was set to `nohttp` or `redirect`.
 
 If the default certificate is also missing, nginx-proxy will configure nginx to accept HTTPS connections but fail the TLS negotiation. Client browsers will render a TLS error page. As of March 2023, web browsers display the following error messages: