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Hue and GoDaddy certificates

Neil — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:57:01 GMT

Hi!

I've been using Hue with a self-signed certificate and it's been fine, but after purchasing a certificate from GoDaddy I can't seem to get it

to work. I've seen a few comments that until recently CherryPy does not work with certificate chains which is what GoDaddy provides.

Has anyone managed to get this to work please? Thanks, Neil

Re: Hue and GoDaddy certificates

Enrico - Hue — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 21:37:52 GMT

Hue ships an older forked version of CherryPy that doesn't support
Certificate chain files.

However, we just landed in our Git repo a fix for it:
https://github.com/cloudera/hue/commit/df932c6edbd3900a05f1ee9bef9b5e629329a817

this should be used with the .pem created like this

cat hostname.key hostname.crt gd_bundle.crt > certificate_chain.pem

(from
https://joshnisly.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/using-godaddy-certificates-with-cherrypy/
)

let us know if it solves it!
e.

Re: Hue and GoDaddy certificates

Neil — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 18:58:03 GMT

Thanks for the quick turnaround!

It actually turned out to be simple - if you only use the public certificate part, and not the chain it works fine and users can now connect via a pretty domain name over https 😉

I did have to leave ssl as disabled in hue.ini though. Perhaps this section is related to how Hue communicates with Hive rather than the browser?

[[ssl]]
# SSL communication enabled for this server.
## enabled=false

Re: Hue and GoDaddy certificates

Romainr — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:05:56 GMT

Yes, these parts are in the [beeswax] or [impala] section so it is for SSL
between Hue and them, so unrelated to HTTPS in the Browser