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•  Raparthi Kalyan (Unlicensed)

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Default Certificate

After the UI appplication is up user's gets self signed certificate by default , if user want to use there private trusted SSL certificate follow this steps.

Prerequisites

• DNS allocated to server .

• Trusted SSL certificate and Key with following format only knowhow.crt & knowhow.key and if its password protected copy the password in knowhow.pass file

• SSL certificate should have common name as DNS name and should be valid from date of upload .  

Steps to upload the Certificate to the server

1. Upload the certificates on the KnowHow server in /tmp directory.

2. Copy the certificate to the ui container by the command 
   
   

   Code Block
   sudo docker cp /tmp/<your_certificate_name.crt> ui:/etc/ssl/certs/knowhow.crt sudo docker cp /tmp/<your_certicate_name.key ui:/etc/ssl/certs/knowhow.key sudo docker restart ui

Possibilities of Error message.

1. "Your connection is not private " even after uploading you certificate.
   Solutions:
   i. Could be you uploaded a self sign certificate.
   ii. You have not opened  the application using the DNS, which matches the common name(issued to) of your certificate.
   iii. DNS not matching with common name .
   iv. After upload of certificate you did not restarted ui container.

2. ''no such file or directory" while executing the docker cp command
   Solution:
   i. Your certificate is not inside /tmp directory do mv <path_of_cert> /tmp

   ii. If you do not have execute rights over certificate do chmod +rwx <cert name>