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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Installing Root Certificate for SSL on IE or Chrome Browser for HTTPS (SSL) connection to work

Making our Browsers trust the server's root CA certificate while configuring SSL:
Importing / Configure / Change Client browser Settings to add ssl server certificate in your Chrome or Internet Explorer (IE) browser is shown as below:

If you are looking for configuring Firefox Browser, visit this post.

Go to Chrome's Settings menu as below:


















On the bottom of the Settings page, click "Advanced Settings"

Look for a section called "HTTP/SSL" and click "Manage Certificates...":

















For IE :
Go to "Tools" Menu --> "Options" --> "Content" tab :



















From now onwards, the screens are same for Chrome and IE.
Actually Chrome will use the IE settings internally :)

On the "Certificates" window, go to the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities" Tab and on bottom, click the "Import..." button:



On the Certificate Import Wizard window, click Next.

Browse for the root CA security certificate (crt) file.
for example: in my case I have the file named as "tomcat6CAS-rootCAcert.crt"















Click Next on next screen.

Click Finish.

You will get a Security Warning, Click Yes:










The Import was successful. Click Ok.

Now On the "Certificates" window, on the "Trusted Root Certification Authorities"  tab, scroll to look for your rootCA certificate: (Something as like mine below):


















Then Close your Certificates Window.

Test your servers Https connection:

Type  https://localhost:8443   or  https://< your server's/computer's IP address running tomcat >:8443  or https://localhost:443  (if using port=443)

You should see the Apache tomcat's (or your Servers) default page running with HTTPs (SSL).

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