topic Why is HTTP is working while HTTPS is not? in Splunk Search

Why is HTTP is working while HTTPS is not?

graju89 — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:47:46 GMT

Hi,

I tried to enable SSL on my Splunk instances. A few of them were successful. Some of them(specifically none of the heavy forwarders ) are not working after I enabled SSL. HTTP on those servers are working fine, which means i have no problem with firewall. I am not sure what am I missing here. Help is much appreciated.

Thanks

Re: Why is HTTP is working while HTTPS is not?

sduff_splunk — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 04:22:41 GMT

To enable SSL for your web interfaces, you need to have the following in web.conf (http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/admin/Webconf)

[settings]
enableSplunkWebSSL = true

You will need to restart for this to take effect.

You can also do this via the GUI, as described at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.0/Security/TurnonbasicencryptionwithSplunkWeb

Re: Why is HTTP is working while HTTPS is not?

graju89 — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:57:12 GMT

Hi sduff,

I did that. After I enabled, I cant access the web GUI using https and http should not be working after enabled SSL. I tried netstat on the server the port is listening but the connection is not established. Also, I am seeing this issue only on heavy forwarders though.