hello all… I have fixed it!
my issue was a docker issue… and so I was not actually placing the certs where I thought I was. I changed
http:
ssl_certificate: /ssl/fullchain.pem
ssl_key: /ssl/privkey.pem
base_url: mysubdomain.no-ip.biz:8123
to:
http:
ssl_certificate: /config/ssl/fullchain.pem
ssl_key: /config/ssl/privkey.pem
base_url: mysubdomain.no-ip.biz:8123
because within my docker install the config folder is not where the homeassistant root folder is, and so there was no <>/ssl/ folder, nor a /ssl/ folder in the docker install. so I had to fully qualify the proper location, and everything worked perfect.