diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0fdfeb6..6d044cf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -252,6 +252,47 @@ while multiple IP addresses were configured for the domain.
     pip install --no-build-isolation .
     ```
 
+1. Install the project with pip under python 2.7 get error:
+    ```
+    python --version
+    Python 2.7.18
+
+    pip install .
+    ```
+
+    Error message:
+    ```
+    ...
+    Building wheels for collected packages: cryptography
+        Building wheel for cryptography (PEP 517) ... error
+        ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
+
+        build/temp.macosx-14.2-arm64-2.7/_openssl.c:18674:10: error: call to undeclared function 'ERR_GET_FUNC'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
+            return ERR_GET_FUNC(x0);
+            ^
+        build/temp.macosx-14.2-arm64-2.7/_openssl.c:18690:14: error: call to undeclared function 'ERR_GET_FUNC'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
+            { result = ERR_GET_FUNC(x0); }
+                    ^
+        build/temp.macosx-14.2-arm64-2.7/_openssl.c:23389:10: error: call to undeclared function 'FIPS_mode'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
+            return FIPS_mode();
+                ^
+        build/temp.macosx-14.2-arm64-2.7/_openssl.c:23400:14: error: call to undeclared function 'FIPS_mode'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
+            { result = FIPS_mode(); }
+                    ^
+        build/temp.macosx-14.2-arm64-2.7/_openssl.c:23415:10: error: call to undeclared function 'FIPS_mode_set'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
+            return FIPS_mode_set(x0);
+            ^
+        build/temp.macosx-14.2-arm64-2.7/_openssl.c:23431:14: error: call to undeclared function 'FIPS_mode_set'; ISO C99 and later do not support implicit function declarations [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
+            { result = FIPS_mode_set(x0); }
+    ...
+    ERROR: Failed building wheel for cryptography
+    ```
+
+    Solution:
+    ```sh
+    brew install openssl@1.1
+    ```
+
 
 ## 8. Development
 
diff --git a/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh b/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
index e94fb37..577593e 100644
--- a/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ function main () {
     declare domain dns_env https_flag=0 \
             OPTIND OPTARG opt
 
-    while getopts d:E:Sh opt; do
+    # ignoring the unknown options
+    while getopts :d:E:Sh opt; do
         case $opt in
             d)
                 domain=$OPTARG
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 11493a6..4466973 100644
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ function main () {
 
     # run shadowsocks-manager
     echo "Running $ssm_container_name ..."
-    docker run --restart=always -d -p 80:80 --network "$ssm_network_name" -v "$ssm_volume_path:/var/local/ssm" \
+    docker run --restart=always -d -p 80:80 -p 443:443 --network "$ssm_network_name" -v "$ssm_volume_path:/var/local/ssm" \
         --name "$ssm_container_name" "$ssm_image" "${default_options[@]}" "$@"
 }
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7c0749d..7f5b62e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,10 +11,13 @@ dependencies = [
     "six",
     "boto3",
     "celery",
-    "Django<4",
 
-    "django-allowedsites-dynamic",
+    # required by dns-lexicon
+    # 20240526 - py2.7 - cryptography==3.3.2 (latest version for py2.7) requires openssl 1.1 on os.
+    # "cryptography",
 
+    "Django<4",
+    "django-allowedsites-dynamic",
     "django-cache-lock",
 
     # 20210314 - py2.7 - workaround for: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement django-timezone-field<5.0,>=4.1.0 (from django-celery-beat->-r requirements.txt (line 10)) (from versions: 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.4, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0rc1, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0rc1, 3.0, 3.1)
@@ -67,6 +70,11 @@ dependencies = [
     # "shadowsocks",
     # "shadowsocks-alexforks",
 
+    # required by dns-lexicon[full]
+    # 20240526 - py2.7 - workaround for: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement prettytable>=2.0.0
+    "Softlayer==5.8.0; python_version <= '2.7'",
+    "Softlayer; python_version > '2.7'",
+
     "tldextract",
     "uWSGI",
 ]
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index b30589c..8628171 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -51,10 +51,13 @@ install_requires =
     six
     boto3
     celery
-    Django<4
 
-    django-allowedsites-dynamic
+    # required by dns-lexicon
+    # 20240526 - py2.7 - cryptography==3.3.2 (latest version for py2.7) requires openssl 1.1 on os.
+    # cryptography
 
+    Django<4
+    django-allowedsites-dynamic
     django-cache-lock
 
     # 20210314 - py2.7 - workaround for: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement django-timezone-field<5.0,>=4.1.0 (from django-celery-beat->-r requirements.txt (line 10)) (from versions: 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.4, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.0rc1, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0rc1, 3.0, 3.1)
@@ -78,6 +81,8 @@ install_requires =
 
     django-import-export
     djangorestframework
+    dns-lexicon[full]
+    dnspython
     docopt
 
     # ipaddress is available since Python 3.3
@@ -99,11 +104,18 @@ install_requires =
     pytz
     requests
 
+    # 20240430 - removed. the installation of Shadowsocks service should be handled outside of this project.
     # 20240417 - workaround for: AttributeError: dlsym(0x8c358790, EVP_CIPHER_CTX_cleanup): symbol not found: File python3.12/site-packages/shadowsocks/crypto/openssl.py, line 52
     # 20240417 - py3.10+ - workaround for: AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'MutableMapping': File python3.12/site-packages/shadowsocks/lru_cache.py, line 34
     # shadowsocks
-    shadowsocks-alexforks
+    # shadowsocks-alexforks
+
+    # required by dns-lexicon[full]
+    # 20240526 - py2.7 - workaround for: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement prettytable>=2.0.0
+    Softlayer==5.8.0; python_version <= '2.7'
+    Softlayer; python_version > '2.7'
 
+    tldextract
     uWSGI
 
 [options.entry_points]