Working With Remote Servers |
Setting up SSL for your remote transfer server.
By default, your transfer server address is 127.0.0.1 because IBM Aspera Faspex on Demand assumes that it is installed on the same machine as your Aspera transfer server (i.e. IBM Aspera Enterprise Server or IBM Aspera Connect Server v3.0+). If you are running your transfer server on a different/remote machine (using the Aspera Node API), you can encrypt the connection between the Faspex Web server and the node using SSL. The transfer node is configured to use the Aspera preinstalled, selfsigned certificate (aspera_server_cert.pem), which is located in the following directory:
/opt/aspera/etc/Perform the steps below to set up your Faspex and remote transfer server nodes for HTTPS communication.
ABOUT PEM FILES: The PEM certificate format is commonly issued by Certificate Authorities. PEM certificates have extensions that include .pem, .crt, .cer, and .key, and are Base-64 encoded ASCII files containing "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" and "-----END CERTIFICATE-----" statements. Server certificates, intermediate certificates, and private keys can all be put into the PEM format.