Configuring SSL certificates in your browser

This topic describes how to import a PKCS12 certificate in your browser.

As a pre-requisite to this task, you must have generated the SSL certificates with the generate_ssl_keys utility.

One reason to import the certificate is if you want to use the Dgraph URL operations.
Note: This procedure is for the Firefox browser. Because the import procedure varies according to the browser, refer to the browser's help for details for your specific browser.

To configure the SSL certificates in Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. From the Tools menu, select Options > Options.
  3. click the Advanced icon.
  4. Click the Encryption tab.
  5. In the Encryption dialog box, click the View Certificates tab.
  6. In the Certificate Manager dialog:
    1. Select the Your Certificates tab.
    2. Click Import.
    3. In the Certificate File to Import dialog, browse to esClientCert.p12 (located in the $DOMAIN_HOME/config/ssl directory) and select it.
    4. In the Password Entry Dialog box, enter the certificate password with "clientkey" appended to it and click OK. For example, if "endeca" was the password you specified when you generated the keys, enter endecaclientkey in the field.
    5. You will see an Alert message that informs you that the certificate was successfully restored. Click OK to close the message. At this point, the Certificate Manager dialog should look like this:
    6. Click OK to close the Certificate Manager dialog.
  7. Click OK to close the Options dialog.

Keep in mind that your must use the HTTPS protocol when accessing Endeca Server pages in secure mode.