Gday, 

In an effort to figure out how SSL works with filemaker I have enabled the default SSL cert that comes with filemaker. Unfortunately I am still presented with an SSL error when I connect to the databases hosted on the server (see image). What steps am I missing in order to get this certificate to work? I understand this is a "not for production" certificate however it is in date and valid and we are using it to see how a production installation would be achieved. FM Server 16, FMPro 16 Windows server 2012.

In order to reproduce the error we:

1. Enabled SSL on the FM server

2. Restarted the service

3. Checked SSL certificate in FM admin console

4. Connected to server using client

Any help appreciated. 

 

Edited July 19, 20178 yr by cnschulz

Self signed certificates will always show this error, since they are not signed by a certificate authority. The traffic is still encrypted, but the error will be there to show you that there are issues.

To get rid of all errors, you will need a real certificate that matches your fully qualified domain name.

Mike