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The subject (problem) is that we all have internal administrative sites (like vsphere, Nutanix, IIS, SQL, etc) that have self-signed certs, protected by ACL/firewall/restricted access. But now with hardening of certs, browsers are increasingly not allowing access unless https has a valid cert.<\/p>\n
I was going to start this post with a question about making EDGE bypass/accept self-signed or expired certificates, but I think I know the answer, “It won’t”. (If I am wrong, please tell me I would LOVE to know how<\/em>).<\/p>\n
But then I was reading in this forum, and got a good thought from a fellow user, “Stop teaching bad habits, and teach how to do it correctly.” This is a great idea. So now I have several different questions, especially since the CA’s are going to start forcing us to renew certs every 90 days.<\/p>\n Auto renewal seems like the way to go. Where do I even start? Does IIS support auto renewal for 3rd party CA’s like Comodo/Sectigo?<\/p>\n Does Tomcat support auto renewal for a windows CA or 3rd party?<\/p>\n What about 3rd party applications where the cert is integrated?<\/p>\n What should be looking up (researching keywords)?<\/p>\n Is there a better CA that does support auto-renewal?<\/p>\n Opinion: The complete removal of the ability to by pass the cert requirement is BULLS@#$. The very least Edge, Chrome , and others can do is make some admin level bypass so we can get our job done! so frusterating >:(<\/p>\n [No AI, Human generated]<\/em><\/p>","upvoteCount":7,"answerCount":14,"datePublished":"2025-05-20T17:54:12.083Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"manlyboots","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/manlyboots"},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":" The subject (problem) is that we all have internal administrative sites (like vsphere, Nutanix, IIS, SQL, etc) that have self-signed certs, protected by ACL/firewall/restricted access. But now with hardening of certs, browsers are increasingly not allowing access unless https has a valid cert.<\/p>\n I was going to start this post with a question about making EDGE bypass/accept self-signed or expired certificates, but I think I know the answer, “It won’t”. (If I am wrong, please tell me I would LOVE to know how<\/em>).<\/p>\n But then I was reading in this forum, and got a good thought from a fellow user, “Stop teaching bad habits, and teach how to do it correctly.” This is a great idea. So now I have several different questions, especially since the CA’s are going to start forcing us to renew certs every 90 days.<\/p>\n Auto renewal seems like the way to go. Where do I even start? Does IIS support auto renewal for 3rd party CA’s like Comodo/Sectigo?<\/p>\n Does Tomcat support auto renewal for a windows CA or 3rd party?<\/p>\n What about 3rd party applications where the cert is integrated?<\/p>\n What should be looking up (researching keywords)?<\/p>\n Is there a better CA that does support auto-renewal?<\/p>\n Opinion: The complete removal of the ability to by pass the cert requirement is BULLS@#$. The very least Edge, Chrome , and others can do is make some admin level bypass so we can get our job done! so frusterating >:(<\/p>\n [No AI, Human generated]<\/em><\/p>","upvoteCount":7,"datePublished":"2025-05-20T17:54:12.158Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/certificate-renewals/1207602/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"manlyboots","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/manlyboots"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":" To my recollection, the short answer is that yes, you can setup auto-renewal of certificates. Not sure this one is still relevant in general or to your specific situation, but may at least point you in the right general direction:
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