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Ashish_M_Gupta_'s avatar
Ashish_M_Gupta_
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Aug 20, 2018

Virtual server with server side profile : Do I need a cert on the backend servers?

If the VIP is assigned the default server SSL profile "serverssl" with default settings, do I need the cert on the backend servers for that virtual server? If not, why is that so? Under what circumst...
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quantiti_170569's avatar
quantiti_170569
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Aug 20, 2018

If your backend server running SSL you may need to add server ssl profile to Virtual Server. It also meaning you need certificate installed in your backend servers

 

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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 20, 2018

As Quantiti stated, this depends on whether or not you re-encrypt to the backend server. If you don't, then no serverssl profile is required. If you do, then the backend server must possess a server certificate and private key. Normally you'd can't enable an Apache or IIS server for encryption without specifying these.

 

But it's also important to understand that the cert and key on the backend server doesn't have to be a public, purchased set. You can very easily use a generic internally-crafted cert and key. The default serverssl profile is defined to ignore certificate trust errors.