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--- admin:server_installation_3 [2023/07/24 11:10] – [SSL Certificate] Ujwal Khatry
+++ admin:server_installation_3 [2023/08/02 00:31] (current) – [SSL Certificate] Mark Glover
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 === Configure cache ===
-**Edit** > **Database Settings** > **User settings for Data file**
+**Edit** > **Settings** > **User settings for Data file**
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 ==== SSL Certificate ====
-The mSupply server also has a webserver as mentioned here :
+The mSupply server also has a webserver as mentioned [[web_interface:using_the_web_server#msupply_web_server|here.]]
-It is recommended that a public facing web server should have an SSL certificate installed. For the mSupply server a 'cert.pem'  and 'key.pem' need to be generated using the purchased SSL certificate that has been purchased from a SSL vendor.
+It is recommended that a public facing web server should have an SSL certificate installed. For the mSupply server a 'cert.pem'  and 'key.pem' need to be generated using the SSL certificate that has been purchased from a SSL vendor.
 Theses files needs to be stored inside the folder C:\Program Files\mSupply\mSupply Server\Server Database  as shown in the image below.
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 -----END PRIVATE KEY-----
 </code>
+More recently we have moved towards using Caddy server software which setup a reverse proxy server which use Let's Encrypt to automatically update SSL certificates. This will avoid the need to manually watch and update expiring SSL
 ==== Installing mSupply Client ====
 Needed:  mSupply Client software of the same version (or relatively recent) as the mSupply Server.