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--- admin:server_installation_3 [2023/06/12 11:41] – [Manually configuring the mSupply client] 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**
 {{ :admin:user_settings_-_edit.png?800 |}}
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+==== SSL Certificate ====
+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 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.
+{{ :admin:msupply_server_ssl_2023-07-24-t16-22.png?400 |}}
+The cert.pem file contains the certificate in the following format and can have the root as well as the intermediate certificate.
+<code>
+-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
+MIIGUzCCBTugAwIBAgIRAP9nsdfsfdsdfYH0oEZgg3k28WUoYQgQwDQYJKoZIhvc
+gY8xCzAJBgNVBAYTAkdCMRswGQYDVQQIExJHcmVhdGVyIE1hbmNoZXN0ZXIxEDAO
+BgNVBAcTB1NhbGZvcassdsdmQxGDAWBgNVBAoTsdfsD1NlY3RpZ28gTGltaXRlZD
+AxMuU2VjdGlnbyBSU0EgRG9tYWluIFZhbGlkYXRpb24gU2VjdXJlIFNlcnZlciBD
+QTAeFw0yMzA2MTYwMDAwMdsadsdDBaFw0yNDA2MTUyMzU5NTlaMCExHzAdBgNVB
+Junk
+-----END CERTIFICATE-----
+-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
+MIIGEzdddhuyuyuyuCCA/ugAwIBAasdasdgIQfVtRJrR2uhHbdBYLvFMNpzANBg
+iDELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxEzARBgNVBAgTCk5ldyBKZXJzZXkxFDASBgNVBAcTC0pl
+cnNleSBDaXR5MR4wHAYDVQQKExVUaGUgVVNFUlRSVVNUIE5ldHdvcmsxLjAsBgNV
+BAMTJVVTRVJUcnVzdCBSU0EgQsdsd2VydGlmaWNhdGlvbiBBdXRob3JpdHkwHhc
+MTAyMDAwMDAwWhcNMzAxMjMxMjM1OTU5WjCBjzELMAkGA1UEBhMCR0IxGzAZBgNV
+Junk
+-----END CERTIFICATE-----
+</code>
+The the key.pem file contains
+<code>
+-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
+MIIEvAIBADANBgkasasdfqhkiG9w0BhgghAQEFAASCBKYwggSiAgEAAoIBAQCqPA
+TZB5GnFAODhHMTU+pqGD8eS6NOzWwhoyb2dvZv1w2Gh6fcprPUpATltvcMe8q+fe
++ITiYylKfcs2nNYyirr2sdfsdfSPGMKR277MW6G7etFCGjBH/Ae9gRcFk4z8Arnj
+e9oRf/UChO21bHjN9itHGIT/7ssp068EufJ+thAdDxzp3xNw70lkAXMxzsZhSJ8k
+CTvUxUF6Niul/1ZReUURCZp6coIweewerRhoLe6KXpgfuuIqtpvyOs2AcGRI6qfx
+iC20nTBKweefzPg4Uo9d6DdhQD7xdklD1SXlcTgEXpa0Cc/iUGthXWvyWyff5uB
+junk==
+-----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.
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 === Forcing mSupply client to connect to a specific mSupply Server ===
+Within an organisation it is possible to have multiple mSupply server running like in the image shown below.
+{{ :admin:mutiple_msupply_client.png?300 |}}
+Now you as a administrator may require a particular mSupply client to connect to one of the server and to ignore the others. To reduce confusion to the user you may require the user to connect to a particular mSupply client.
+It is possible to direct a mSupply client application to look out for a particular mSupply server only. Let us assume that you want a certain computer to access the mSupply server with a IP address of : 192.168.3.200
+  * Install the mSupply Client.
+  * Navigate to `C:\mSupply client\Database`
+  * You will see the `EnginedServer.4DLink`  file,  use Notepad to open it.
+  * For the server path `server_path=":19813"`  Enter a valid msupply server IP like  `server_path="192.168.3.200:19813"`
+  * save the `EnginedServer.4DLink`  file
+  * Now when you start the mSupply client, it will know where the mSupply server is and will look for the IP : 192.168.3.200
+{{ :admin:solomons_4dclient_link_file-2023-06-08-t19-38.png?700 |}}
 ==== mSupply Server configuration ====