On a new Portainer installation, when you access Portainer at https://<your-server-ip>:9443, you may see the “Your Portainer instance timed out for security purposes. To re-enable your Portainer instance, you will need to restart Portainer” error message.
The error message tells you what to do to fix the problem – restart the Portainer Docker container. Let’s do that.
First, stop the Portainer Docker container with the following command:
$ docker stop portainer
or
$ sudo docker stop portainer
Then, start the Portainer Docker container again as follows:
$ docker start portainer
or
$ sudo docker start portainer
Now, try to access Portainer at https://<your-server-ip>:9443 again and the problem should be fixed.
Conclusion
In this article, we showed you how to fix the new Portainer installation error “Your Portainer instance timed out for security purposes”.
