Difficult to setup a portal federated with a server

Question

I found it is difficult to setup a portal to federated with server even in a development environment (I have Windows Server's admin privilege). In fact, I haven't got it work yet.

I've installed portal, server, data store (10.3.1) in one box and have a hard time to make it work as a federated portal. One of causes is the requirement for enabling HTTPS.

I'm doing POC (proof of concept) for using Portal in a development server (Windows). Can it be configured (federated) using HTTP on a dev server inside firewall?

thanks,

OmolaraKareem · Answer

Dear Jonathan,

Thank you for  this solution. As it turned out, the problem was actually that the wrong self-signed certificate was being accessed. With the assistance of my organization's IT personnel, we were able to point the Portal towards the right certificate. I was then able to federate my server without a hitch.

Thanks again.

JonathanQuinn · Answer

You need to make sure that the Portal trusts the certificate used by your Server:

Configuring the portal to trust certificates from your certifying authority—Portal for ArcGIS (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcG…

Since the request that is failing is the one that reaches the Server via 6443, export the certificate used for port 6443 using your browser and then follow the steps in the link above to tell Portal to trust that certificate.

OmolaraKareem · Answer

Hello Derek, Could you help me with something please. I am trying to federate my Server with my Portal for ArcGIS to no avail. I have read everything I can find concerning it but have not made any headway. The following is from the portal error log. Does it make any sense to you or give you an idea of what I'm doing wrong? 'https://lamata-gissvr:6443/arcgis/manager/rest/info?f=json' is not accessible: Error. sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target. Invalid SSL certificate found. PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target URL 'https://lamata-gissvr:6443/arcgis/manager/rest/info?f=json' is not accessible: Error. sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target. I appreciate any help you are able to render. Lara