mac | pc Filemaker Server 13 + commercial SSL cert

[itadmin999]

Hi Folks,

 

I am a sysadmin but a new user of FMP13 server and at our university we use InCommon SSL certs (they are free to us), which are widely accepted and have worked well for websites, etc.

 

However, at first glance it does not appear to be possible to use an InCommon cert with FMP13 Server -- am I correct about this? 

 

It appears Filemaker only supports these certs:

 

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11413/

 

Please let me know if I'm correct or incorrect about this...and if there are any workarounds!

 

Thanks, Dan

[Richard Fincher]

Depends what you're planning to connect from? FileMaker Go appears to need one of the four specified ones. But if you're just looking to secure the FMS server web control panel, and you're not worried about one of those "Get Exception" dialog boxes in Firefox, you may be OK

[itadmin999]

I found the solution and wanted to share the steps. We're using Macintosh but these steps are easily converted from these Windows instructions. Note we are using a multi-domain SAN SSL certificate and this works perfectly via these steps:

 

Stop FMP Server and FMP Web

 

1. Generate the certificate from your provider. 
2. Downloaded the certificate
3. Copy the certificate request file ( "some.subdomain.csr" ) to: C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerCStore
4. Rename the certificate request file ( "some.subdomain.csr" ) to: serverRequest.pem
5. Copy the encrypted private key file ( "some.subdomain.key" ) to: C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerCStore
6. Rename the encrypted private key file ( "some.subdomain.key" ) to: serverKey.pem
7. Copy the certificate file ( "some.subdomain.crt" ) to: C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerCStore
8. Open a DOS ("PowerShell") window.
9. Enter into DOS prompt: fmsadmin certificate import "C:Program FilesFileMakerFileMaker ServerCStoresome.subdomain.crt"