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Massimo Melina edited this page May 6, 2023 · 7 revisions

Certificate

HTTPS cannot work without a "certificate" file. That's why, when you activate HTTPS in the Admin-panel, you get something like this:

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The easy way is to let HFS automatically make a basic certificate (clicking the "make one" link). But this easy solution has the downside of showing an ugly warning to the final user

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You can get a better certificate, one that shows no warning, and feed it to HFS. There are several companies selling certificates, but you can get one for free at https://letsencrypt.org/ .

A certificate file comes with another file called "private key". It's very important to keep these files private, so never have them in your "shared files".

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