mikkydoos Posted June 15, 2015 Posted June 15, 2015 (edited) Hi all, I'm trying to access my vSphere Web Administration Console working to connect to a vSphere Server running on an ESXi 5.1 host. In IE11 am getting the dreaded 'There is a problem with this website's security certificate' error. I had this working last week and its stopped. The servers running fine - I can access the vSphere Server using vSphere Client but not the web console. Can anyone tell me the method of getting the certificate to work? I've followed a few guides and imported rui.crt and cacert.pem from 'C:\ProgramData\VMware\vSphere Web Client\ssl' (on the server) but to no avail. Done this on the server running vSphere Server and on my local machine. On the server I get 'Continue to this website (not recommended)' , after that a blank window. On my PC I get 'There is a problem with this website’s security certificate' and no option to continue. VMWare kb's say to use a cert from a trusted authority but there's no need for that as its only running on my Intranet. Please help Thanks in advance Edited June 15, 2015 by mikkydoos
Davit2005 Posted June 15, 2015 Posted June 15, 2015 I don't think IE is the supported Web Browser for vSphere 5.1 Web Client. You'd be better off using Chrome, I even think you get a warning when opening up saying the browser isn't fully compatible. 1
mikkydoos Posted June 15, 2015 Author Posted June 15, 2015 Cheers @Davit2005 Chrome works. That'll do for now.
Davit2005 Posted June 15, 2015 Posted June 15, 2015 Cheers @Davit2005 Chrome works. That'll do for now. No problem, Given that they want to push every one to the Web Client and in newer vSphere 6 new features you can only do in the client it seems weird that they don't support IE.
mikkydoos Posted June 15, 2015 Author Posted June 15, 2015 Funny its been working for a while then suddenly stopped working.
Davit2005 Posted June 15, 2015 Posted June 15, 2015 Funny its been working for a while then suddenly stopped working. Blame Windows Update
mikkydoos Posted June 15, 2015 Author Posted June 15, 2015 Most probably. Which one? Theres only about 50 a day !
mikkydoos Posted June 15, 2015 Author Posted June 15, 2015 Incidentally, won't work in Firefox/Waterfox either. VMWare do make things so overcomplicated.
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