I got a nodeJS express API /w nginx up and running on an ubuntu server. I've set up everything but when I try to access the API (https://167.xx.xx.xx:80/get-all-products) directly or through my client I get this error:
ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
I've did some searching and I found out that this could be because my server does not have a valid ssl certificate but for a ssl certificate I would need to have a domain / be the owner of the ip adress which I guess i'm not as the server is hosted by another company.
How can I fix this error without having to buy a domain for my server?
https://167.xx.xx.xx:80/... ...
I've did some searching and I found out that this could be because my
server does not have a valid ssl certificate
This isn't the case here yet. The problem instead is that you are simply trying to switch from http:// on port 80 to https:// on port 80 without having the server setup for HTTPS. Thus the client will try to speak HTTPS while the server only understands HTTP - and this causes the failure you see.
To be able to use https:// in the URL you need to setup the server for this and the configuration must use a certificate which matches the URL (domain or IP) - no way around this.
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I'm trying to secure my we server using HTTPS and SSL/TLS to access my website. Going to the site by www.-----.------.compute-1.amazonaws.com works and the connection is successful. But when I try https://www.-----.------.compute-1.amazonaws.com chrome says "This site can’t be reached" "www.-----.------.compute-1.amazonaws.com refused to connect". I am using an Amazon Linux instance. Where did I go wrong?
Typical problem. I am assuming some things here.
You launched a EC2 (or something similar) Instance
Didn't Open 443 port or Configure it further.
Using port 80 for serving pages.
I think you got the answer. Check this out.
I needed an SSL certificate from a CA (certificate authority). I was using a self-signed certificate which doesn't work in a browser.
I have a chrome extension which uses an externel socket.io server to connect clients together.
During development I was able to connect to the server via http://localhost:2087 just fine, but right now I need socket.io to work over HTTPS so I can access it from a browser tab being server by HTTPS.
I don't want to deal with certificates, and want to keep the code on the socket.io server mostly the same, so I want to proxy the IP for the server via Cloudflare and establish SSL like that.
But I haven't been able to, the socket.io server uses no other webserver, but I can change it to use the native NodeJS http or https libraries.
But I haven't been able to access the socket.io server via the Cloudflare proxy. Clouflare returns 522 errors, which means a connection timeout.
Apparantly flexible SSL only works with with ports 443->80
Other ports are not supported...
i do deploy a website in nginx and translate it from http to https using let's cerbot before. it runs well.
My question is, in my website, i need to access my own Node.js Server using axios. As before, i used http, it goes well expect security.But now, below the Https connect, the browser blocks my http connect.So i tried update my Node Server to support Https connect using Self-signed SSL certificates, but the browser blocks it as well.
Who can tell me how can i fix this problem and make the site work well.Thank you!
You should setup nginx as reverse proxy for nodejs server
Recently I just start using https:// for my server and the strange thing is that I can open if I explicitly type "https://www.example.com:80" but won't be able to connect if i type "https://www.example.com".
I am using NodeJS with Express 4 framework hosted on Digital Ocean.
What can I do to let people access my website normally? And also is it normal that they have to click "accept" first time they visit? Why for other https website I dont have to do that?
I am using RapidSSL.
Your question is light on details, but here are the two likely guesses:
If you want your SSL server to work by default when users type https://xxxx, then your server needs to be running on port 443, not port 80. That's the default port number reserved for https connections and is the port number that the browser will try if the user just enters a https://xxxx URL.
If the browser is prompting you for permission to connect to your site, then that is likely because the SSL certificate you are using is not signed by one of the certificate authorities that the browsers trust (perhaps it is a self signed certificate). You can solve that issue by getting a certificate from the right trusted source and using that certificate in your server. It's also a possibility that something else is wrong with your SSL configuration, but we'd need to see more detail about the situation to know.
I have a local PHP server for my website and a local PHP server for websocket but websockets doesn't work anymore since I installed self-signed SSL certificats in WAMP. I have read that I have to use wss:// but when I change ws://localhost/xxx/server.php to wss://xxx/server.php but it doesn't solve my problem. I have accepted the certificat in firefox and chrome but it doesn't change anything. Any idea of what i supposed to do to repair websocket? Do I have to install certificat or key in my websocket PHP server?
You have to put the same certificate for the web page, and access the page with https://, therefore the browser will prompt you to accept the self-signed certificate and the websocket will be able of connecting using ws://
Also, be sure you use different ports for ws:// and wss://, some browsers get messed up if you start changing the connection of the same port.