diff --git a/core/bootstart.sh b/core/bootstart.sh
index 58faa80..1eac149 100755
--- a/core/bootstart.sh
+++ b/core/bootstart.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ if [[ -z /startup/setup-platform.py ]]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$VOLTTRON_ROOT
+
 echo "Before platform setup, print environment."
 printenv
 
diff --git a/core/setup-platform.py b/core/setup-platform.py
index 733d613..80bfa88 100755
--- a/core/setup-platform.py
+++ b/core/setup-platform.py
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ def _create_platform_config_file(platform_cfg, cfg_path):
 
 
 def _create_certs(cfg_path, platform_cfg):
+    if not platform_cfg.get("bind-web-address", "").startswith("https://"):
+        print("Web address is not set to use SSL. Skipping certificate creation.")
+        return
     print("Creating CA Certificate...")
     # We need to import Certs here because we Certs depends on zmq, which only gets installed after _install_required_deps() is executed.
     # If we put this import statement at the top of the module, we will run into an import error because zmq gets