HTTPS : Importing Self-Signed Certificates

Fire Insights comes with a self-signed certificate. It is contained in conf/keystore.jks.

When using the self-signed certificate, the Browser will complain as it has not been issued by a Certificate Authority.

This warning message can be supressed by importing the self-signed certificate into the Browser inside Trusted Root Certification Authorities.

Below are the steps for importing self-signed certificate into your Browser.

Export the certificate to your machine

• Got to URL for the HTTPS port.

  • https://privateip:8443/login

• Click on Not secure option.

• Click on Certificate.

• View Certificate.

• Click on Details option to see detail information of certificate.

• Click on copy to  file option to copy certificate to local machine.

• Select below option and press Next.

• Select the Name & file location of certificate.

• After upadating the details Success msg will apear.

Next we need to add the exported certificate to the Browser.

Add Certificate to Browser

• Using Google chrome

• Go to below location after opening Google Chrome.

  • Settings -> Advanced -> Privacy and Security-> Manage Certificates

• Click on Manage Certificate icon.

• Click on import.

• Select certificate from local system, use Trusted Root Certification Authorities option and press yes to save it.

• Once the above process complete, close the browser and start again and try to login with above URL, It should work without any warnings.

• Help Url: https://peacocksoftware.com/blog/make-chrome-auto-accept-your-self-signed-certificate