How to use .PFX file to avoid website security certificate error for newsstand and web console

[shrav666]

Hi,

We do have Qlik Nprinting April 2019 application in Azure VM server running with an application in-built web server(not IIS). Due to port conflicts, we haven't installed IIS in the server. In order to avoid the error "There is a problem with the website security certificate" while launching the application web portal, we requested certificates team for SSL certificate. But they have provided us with .PFX file and told us to install in our server.

The certificate team has generated a CSR file from their end and created .PFX and shared it to us. When googled how to use .pfx file the steps were shown for IIS server, but in our case, we do not use IIS.

Could you please guide me on the steps how to use .pfx file in our Nprinting server(which do not has IIS) to avoid the website security certificate error for newsstand and web console.

[Lech_Miszkiewicz]

First thing first - great that you managed to get certificate working. I do not want to be picky but i said and gave you link  ( https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/June2019/Content/NPrinting/DeployingQVNprinting/Managing-cert....) what criteria certificate needs to meet. It would already help with the fact that you did not have root and intermediate certificate...

So for the sake of others chasing up the same problem - please read carefully requirements on help.qlik.com - screeenshot below:

Regarding your question about delay in loading portal. I did not observe anything like this on any environments I've had setup. First thing i would do is to inspect what is happening behind the scenes when opening admin or news stand pages ("F12" in chrome ). Observe what takes time to load...

On another note. I do not think this is a topic we should discuss in this thread as it is not related to your initial question  and i would suggest opening new ticket for this particular issue with well described scenario etc...