How to configure your mobility server to use a self-signed cert for testing purposes
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In order to be able to use Mobility Pack with a self-signed cert (normally for testing purposes), you'll need to follow these instructions:
NOTE: You can name the .key and .cert files anything you'd like initially because you're going to need to change it to "mobility.pem" later.
- Open the terminal
- Perform the following commands:
openssl genrsa 1024 > anything.key
chmod 400 anything.key
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 365 -key anything.key > anything.cert
- Now that you've created the key and cert file you need to concatenate the two files into a .pem file with this command, private key first, then cert. You can also remove the .key file for security purposes in the same command.
cat anything.key anything.cert > anything.pem \ && rm anything.key
chmod 400 anything.pem
- Once you've created the .pem file you need to rename it to "mobility.pem" and then replace it with the mobility.pem file in /var/lib/datasync/device.
- WinMobile devices require a .cer certificate file (as opposted to .pem). You'll need to create a copy of the .pem file and convert it to .cer:
openssl x509 -in mobility.pem -inform PEM -out mobility.der -outform DER
rename the mobility.der to mobility.cer and move it in the /var/lib/datasync/device directory.
- Restart the connectors and resync with your device
- Now you shouldn't have cert issues with your device while trying to connect with your self-signed cert.