How to configure Hue for TLS SSL communication

Question

Hi. Please provide me the steps to configure Hue Server for TLS/SSL.

Answer 1

Follow these steps from the root of your Hue installation path:

1. Configure Hue to use your private key by adding the following options to the Hue configuration file:

   ssl_certificate=/path/to/certificate
   ssl_private_key=/path/to/key
   

2. Then run these commands:

   # Create a key 
   $ openssl genrsa 1024 > host.key 
   # Create a self-signed certificate 
   $ openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -key host.key > host.cert