https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Having-trouble-with-using-certificates/m-p/610317#M16298 <P>Hi there!&nbsp;</P> <P>I've been using Splunk for a while and now i want&nbsp; to use certificates to making it more secure.</P> <P>The problem comes when, afteer following the documentation, splunk web doesn't&nbsp; starts.</P> <P>My pem certificate has 2 certificates inside and a private key, and I also tried using the private key in a .key file and the certificates together in the pem and it neither works.</P> <P>Any advice or solution?</P> <P>Thank you!</P> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:02:21 GMT Charlython 2022-08-22T15:02:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Having-trouble-with-using-certificates/m-p/610317#M16298 <P>Hi there!&nbsp;</P> <P>I've been using Splunk for a while and now i want&nbsp; to use certificates to making it more secure.</P> <P>The problem comes when, afteer following the documentation, splunk web doesn't&nbsp; starts.</P> <P>My pem certificate has 2 certificates inside and a private key, and I also tried using the private key in a .key file and the certificates together in the pem and it neither works.</P> <P>Any advice or solution?</P> <P>Thank you!</P> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:02:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Having-trouble-with-using-certificates/m-p/610317#M16298 Charlython 2022-08-22T15:02:21Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Having-trouble-with-using-certificates/m-p/610357#M16300 <P>Make sure your Splunk user has the proper permissions to read the certs.</P><P>web.conf</P><P>enableSplunkWebSSL = 1</P><P>privKeyPath = /opt/splunk/etc/auth/mycert.key</P><P>serverCert = /opt/splunk/etc/auth/mycert.pem</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Depending on the method you used, you must combine the server certificate, the private key, and the public certificate, in that order, into a single file. The combined file must be in privacy-enhanced mail (PEM) format.</P><PRE>cat &lt;server certificate file&gt; &lt;server private key file&gt; &lt;certificate authority certificate file&gt; &gt; &lt;combined server certificate file&gt;</PRE><P><A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/HowtoprepareyoursignedcertificatesforSplunk" target="_blank">https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Security/HowtoprepareyoursignedcertificatesforSplunk</A>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 22 Aug 2022 14:53:49 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Security/Having-trouble-with-using-certificates/m-p/610357#M16300 matt8679 2022-08-22T14:53:49Z