Orthanc HTTPS ssl configuration

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Hello,

I was trying to secure the Orthanc http api with ssl using a pem certificate along with a key that is password protected. I properly filled the orthanc config parameters like in the following where certificate.pem is a file containing both the pem certificate chain and the password protected private key.
// Whether or not SSL is enabled
− “SslEnabled” : true,
// Path to the SSL certificate used by the HTTP server. The file
// must be stored in the PEM format, and must contain both the
// certificate and the private key. This option is only meaningful
// if “SslEnabled” is true.
“SslCertificate” : “certificate.pem”,

However I cannot contact Orthanc.
When I try with a non-password protected private key, everything is fine.
I guess that the issue is because of the password protected private key, is there a way to configure orthanc to use this password ?

Thanks in advance

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Hi,

No, this is actually not supported by the Civetweb server that we use inside Orthanc. You should use openssl to extract the unencrypted private key and generate a new .pem file with the cert + the unencrypted private key.

HTH,

Alain

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