how to get rid of "Untrusted Connection" error

Question

I have developed a web application and used my certificate for SSL. I don't need the CA certificates, because the client is connecting to the server in an intranet. So the client will get the Untrusted Connection error every time. do you have any idea how we can get rid of this error in each browser? I tried to add my generated certificate to the browser but it didn't work and it didn't recognize my certificate type.

thanks,

-- Mana

Answer 1

For intranet you create a custom CA and import it as trusted into the browsers. You don't use this CA directly in the web application, but you create with this CA a certificate which matches the hostname of the web application and use this for the web server. Because your intranet CA is trusted by the browser it will accept all certificates created by this CA.