Hi Everyone!
I'n new to FM and for the past few weeks i worked on a custom APP for our organization. Everything works great and I'm ready to deploy it to our FM server which i just installed.
I want the connection from the clients to the FM server to be secured so i would like to use SSL. My APP will run only on the LAN so i'm not sure how would this work with SSL issuer like godaddy. Did anyone get the SSL working on their LAN? We have a domain environment (company.local) and i would need the certificate to be issued to our domain vs publicly facing domains.
Thanks!
Welcome to the platform!
There are two components at play here that will get you to secure your traffic.
The first is a SSL certificate to cover the FQDN (fully quailified domain name) of your server. For that to be in place you have to own the domain name first. That's what GoDaddy can do for you, or any other domain name provider.
You typically want to have your SSL cert cover a subdomain name of your top-level domain though. Something like 'fms.domain.com'. Or if you know you'll have multiple filemaker servers go for a wildcard certificate that will cover all subdomains: *.domain.com.
Once you have decided on the subdomain name you want to work with:
Secondly you need to make sure your internal DNS is set up so that it knows that 'fms.domain.com' points to your filemaker server. If you don't have a DNS server internally you may want to get one. Because unless clients try to connect to 'fms.domain.com' they won't get a fully functional SSL connection.
Let's stop here and let us know what part of this narrative so far you are familiar with and we can take it from there.