# Change Kibana server from http to https
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 2, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678 "2017-02-02T12:45:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@chenbe2204](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chenbe2204)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678/1 "2017-02-02T12:45:50Z")
Hi ,
My server version is:
Distributor ID: RedHatEnterpriseServer
Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.6 (Santiago)
Release: 6.6
Codename: Santiago
How can I change my server from HTTP to HTTPS ? What are my options ?
Thanks 🙂
Chen
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### Author:  [@ppuschmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppuschmann)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678/2 "2017-02-02T14:11:12Z")
Perhaps put some Webserver like Nginx in Front of Kibana and use Kibana as Proxy-Backend.
Then you're completely free to define certificates, vhosts, redirect-rules & else.
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### Author:  [@Rinat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rinat)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678/3 "2017-02-06T15:10:53Z")
Can I use x-pack in order to make access to Kibana from http to https?
Thanks,
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678/4 "2017-02-06T15:15:51Z")
@chenbe2204 which version of Kibana are you using?
@Rinat x-pack isn't required for SSL support - [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#enabling-ssl](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/production.html#enabling-ssl)
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### Author:  [@Rinat](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rinat)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2017, 3:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678/5 "2017-02-06T15:17:52Z")
I'm using 5.1. Well, I just installed x-pack on my elastic stack and wanted to add SSL to Kibana when accessing the web interface.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2017, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678/6 "2017-02-06T15:19:45Z")
@Rinat that's awesome! X-Pack isn't required for Kibana to use SSL, but it does add a bunch of other stuff including security so you can limit who has access.
You should be able to set the following two settings in your kibana.yml to enable SSL:
```auto
# SSL for outgoing requests from the Kibana Server (PEM formatted)
server.ssl.key: /path/to/your/server.key
server.ssl.cert: /path/to/your/server.crt
```
then if you restart Kibana, you should be good to go!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2017, 3:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/change-kibana-server-from-http-to-https/73678/7 "2017-03-06T15:20:21Z")
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