Certificate Renewal

[Fahad Siddiqui]

Can some one provide more details about certificate renewal also how can it will be done.

[DPKJ · Accepted solution]

@Fahad Siddiquirenewal of certificate depend upon your certificate issuer.

For example,

If your certificate is self signed (using openssl/keytool etc), it is as simple as generating a new certificate.

If your certificate is issued by Amazon for AWS service, you can setup auto renewal.

If your certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt, it also provide auto renewal setup.

If you certificate is issue by other provider like, VeriSign, DigiCert, Comodo etc, you need to visit there site and purchase/renew certificate and follow instructions provided by them.

[Fahad Siddiqui]

Dear,

Actually i am not aware how its was created. How can i get details can you assist.

[DPKJ]

If you are not aware of how certificate was created, you have two options,

1. Click on lock icon on browser's address bar after opening site for which you want to verify certificate and look at certificate information.
2. Completely ignore the old certificate and get a new one, it will not effect anything.

For example - certificate information of https://community.atlassian.net looks like this,

So we know that this is issued by DigiCert Inc.

[Fahad Siddiqui]

i cant find the identity. But its showing like issued by the production link.

[DPKJ]

I think getting a new certificate is better choice. I am not aware of "production link".

[Fahad Siddiqui]

I have never created a certificate before, can you assist how to start and what is required to create certificate.

[DPKJ]

@Fahad Siddiquiyou need specify your need before I can give you clear guidelines,

Are you trying to create certificate for your Jira, and if yes do you have any proxy server etc?

[Fahad Siddiqui]

No proxy server .

[DPKJ]

Go though this article - https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/running-jira-applications-over-ssl-or-https-938847764.html

You need an admin access to machine where Jira is hosted, and if you are buying certificate from external authority you also need an access to domain provider.

[Fahad Siddiqui]

You mean on JIRA server machine i need to have admin rights?

[DPKJ]

It means, machine where Jira is hosted you need rights to make changes in Jira installation directory.

[Fahad Siddiqui]

i just wanted to ask one more information. If the add-on app showing that they will be expire need to be updated or buy. if we need to know why add on will affect which area or filed can we know that.

[DPKJ]

No, you can not find that information about add-on. At most you can look at each module and screenshot they provide and do the guess work.

[Fahad Siddiqui]

ok... its showing the expire dates. if we update the version will it ask the some information? also some requires to be purshaced

[DPKJ]

No it will not ask for any information. Updating add-ons is simple UI operation in Jira. But I suggest you renew licenses before updating any add-on, because some add-ons might not work properly after upgrade if you don't have valid license.

[Gonchik Tsymzhitov · Accepted solution]

Hi! 

Could you provide a more details info, please? 

if you are not using revers proxy is one story

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Confluence-Certificate-renewal/qaq-p/713253

if you use reverse proxy, it will be done on revers proxy side.

Cheers,

Gonchik Tsymzhitov

[Christian Schopf]

Because I hated that I had to scroll thru comments for a solution, i created this step by step tutorial for dummies like me.

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/How-To-Jira-Server-with-official-Wildcard-Certificate-Use-or/qaq-p/1399154