topic Re: HTTP vs HTTPS in ArcGIS Online Questions

HTTP vs HTTPS

AnthonyPagan — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:59:07 GMT

We have created several maps and apps for use by one of our jurisdictions and they are made public and only use HTTP the jurisdiction has created a new website and their entire website is HTTPS and is having troubles consuming the services we created for them. The website tech said because of their SSL certificate the maps need to have an https versus an http, to be able to function with their site. We do not have a SSL certificate because we wanted to keep everything as simple as possible and not get into the headache of getting an SSL and dealing with our IT department.

Any suggestions, we used AGOL and the web app builder inside AGOL to create this maps and apps.

Re: HTTP vs HTTPS

DanielStauning — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 19:44:12 GMT

Hi Anthony,

This sounds like a standard mixed content issue; the apps are now running in https but the services within the apps are using http. Are your services running on your own GIS Server or are they hosted services in ArcGIS Online? If you need to configure https on your own GIS Server here are the instructions:

Configure HTTPS on ArcGIS Server—Documentation (10.4) | ArcGIS for Server

If they are hosted service in ArcGIS Online, https is already configured and there is no administrative action required, the apps just may need to be updated to use the services via https.

Hope this helps!

-Dan

Re: HTTP vs HTTPS

AnthonyPagan — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 20:33:57 GMT

Everything is hosted and running on our GIS server we gave them the URL to the apps so they can consume them in their website.

Re: HTTP vs HTTPS

AbhishekRathi1 — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 07:18:06 GMT

Dear Anthony,

You can create your own self singed certificate. I can't comment on security issues.

To generate SSL

IT: How To Create a Self Signed Security (SSL) Certificate and Deploy it to Client Machines

and as per as server is concern

Enable HTTPS on your web server—Installation Guides (10.4) | ArcGIS for Server

Enabling SSL using the default self-signed certificate—Documentation (10.3 and 10.3.1) | ArcGIS for Server

Hope it will solve your issue.

Thanks and Regards.

Abhishek Rathi

Re: HTTP vs HTTPS

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:38:47 GMT

Here are several links to discussions on SSL and secure services (not in a particular order, however, the last few are from the GeoNet .community, not just help.

Security and Proxies: