I have a virtual server with a few websites on it. To be honest I know next to nothing about SSL. When Itry to log in to my servers Web Host Manager or any of my sites Cpanels I get a screen (In chrome) saying "This website is not trusted". Is this because the server needs to have SSL installed on it?
Maybe it's not even to do with SSL, but any explanation is appreciated.
SSL secures your conecction between your browser and the server. If you have important data there you should install SSL to protect your connection from "sniffing".
SSL is network protocol so you have to install it or enable it on the server.
here is resource for installing/enabling SSL on Apache server:
http://www.digicert.com/ssl-certificate-installation-apache.htm
and here is how to install/enable SSL on IIS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299875
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I am new to server management and all that HTTP stuff. I am setting up an internal server for my home to serve websites internally, my website needs to register a service worker and for that, I'll need an SSL Certificate and HTTP connection, which seems impossible in my case as all localhost or internal IPs are served over HTTP with untrusted SSL Certificates.
If anyone could suggest a way around serving websites over HTTPS with trusted certificates so that service worker can be used.
Note: I'll be using Xampp Apache for my Linux server with a static internal IP.
If you need 'trusted cert for any client', I may say "no way".
But if you need 'trusted cert for your client only', you have a way to do that.
I guess you published self-ssl cert for your Apache. In the case, you just install the cert into your client.
example: The following link tell us the case of client = Chrome on Windows.
https://peacocksoftware.com/blog/make-chrome-auto-accept-your-self-signed-certificate
If you use any programming language as a client, you may need another way to install the cert.
I am trying to put my software "which is a website" on the client’s own server, and I have installed the ssl certificate on the server. when I open the website from the server then the connection is secure. But when I launch the website from any other machine which is on the same local network with the server, then I got the message from the browser that this Page is not secure (broken HTTPS) Certificate-missing. Its not logic that I have to install the ssl certificate on each machine. I mean its installed on the server then each local machine should see the link as secure just as the server!
My server has a main site which have SSL certificate installed. There is also a linux management panel which runs on port 8080 that does not support SSL. What I want is that the traffic from the client to CloudFlare is encrypted with CloudFlare's certificate, but leave the connection from CDN to my VPS server non-secure. Right now the SSL/TLS encryption mode is set to flexible, edge certificates shows active, and also I've turned off "always use https". When i tried to access the 8080 port with https prefix however I couldn't get through. Can someone offer me a way to acheive this: traffic from client to CDN encrypted, while CDN connects unsecured to my server. PS: I'm using the free plan of CloudFlare and since it's a personal site and I do not want to induce extra cost, hope I can solve this with in the free plan.
There are two ways to solve your problem using Cloudflare without any additional cost.
First of all turn ON always use HTTPS
Changing Flexible to Full in SSL/TLS setting in Cloudflare (Simple Way, No need any other setup in your server).
Which will encrypt the data transfer from Cloudflare to your server using a self-signed certificate.
Changing Flexible to Full(Strict) in SSL/TLS setting in Cloudflare (Need some work in your server).
For Full(Strict), Go to your origin server tab in SSL/TLS and press create a certificate to get your SSL Certificate. But this certificate is only valid between your server and cloudflare.
Then you need to install those certificates on your server.
Additional Steps(As you don't have an HTTPS setup in your VPS):
As you are using the port in your Webserver. So reverse proxy your application running on port 8080 using Apache, Nginx on the port 443. Check this answer for some idea.
I am able to reach my weblogic console over https connection but when I try to launch developer console that is setup as a managed server in the weblogic domain, it fails. However, I can reach the dev console over http port without any issues.
I checked the validity of certs installed my keystore and configured to enable ssl port in managed servers. I am not sure what I am missing here. Please advice if I am missing any additional checks/setups.
For eg,
http://<XXX.cname.com>:9005/console - works on http
https://<XXX.cname.com>:9009/edq - does not work on https
I verified from console that ports are right and ssl ports are enabled.
I am using Windows XP and running Tomcat 6.
I am trying to enable SSL on Tomcat. First, I tried it with client authentication.
It didn't work - and I configured it to work without client authentication.
I have certificate installed on the tomcat server, and also the CA certificate installed on the browsers (IE & FireFox).
It still doesn't work.
In IE the server doesn't throw any exception except for EOFException.
In FireFox it throws SSLHandeShakeException: Remote host close the connection.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.
The SSL configuration as provided in the comments is highly suspect - particularly the keyStorePass attribute. I suggest you work from the Tomcat SSL docs and proceed in the following order:
Get https working from a browser with a self-signed certificate
Then get it working with a proper certificate
Then try and add client certificate authentication
This does all work. It is tested as part of the Servlet TCK and every Tomcat release passes the TCK.