
Configuring your browser for trusted HTTPS connections to IBM Content Navigator and Box 1
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Configuring your browser for trusted HTTPS
connections to IBM Content Navigator and Box
The information in this web doc guides you through adding the IBM® Content Navigator server’s
certificate to the desktop browser for Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. This document is an
associated web doc for the web doc
How to Successfully Integrate IBM Content Navigator with Box
Repository
, TIPS1350, found at:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1350.html
Use the web server administrative console to check that the server that is hosting IBM Content Navigator
has a valid SSL Server Certificate, which is self-signed or signed by a recognized authority. Ensure that
the desktop browser (Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Firefox) can establish a trusted HTTPS connection to
the web server without any certificate errors or security risk warnings. It is important that you are not
presented with a certificate error.
Figure 1 shows an example of an IBM WebSphere® root certificate in the IBM WebSphere Application
Server administrative console.
Figure 1. Example WebSphere root certificate
Configuring Internet Explorer
To configure Internet Explorer, complete these steps:
Add the HTTPS connection URL host name to the Internet Explorer Trusted Sites.
1.
Connect to IBM Content Navigator by using HTTPS and the HTTPS port (use the application server
2.
default 9443 and the front-end proxy default 443).
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