# Configuration of HTTPS / SSL on 6.8.5 without clustering

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-https-ssl-on-6-8-5-without-clustering/218771>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 11, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-https-ssl-on-6-8-5-without-clustering/218771 "2020-02-11T12:49:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rudy\_Gunawan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rudy_gunawan/32/62437_2.png) [@Rudy\_Gunawan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Rudy_Gunawan)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-https-ssl-on-6-8-5-without-clustering/218771/1 "2020-02-11T12:49:18Z")

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Hi I am trying to configure SSL on Elastic Search. The Elastic Search Server is running as standalone , no nodes / cluster created.

My intention is simple : **to secure the communication from Elastic Search to Client ( Jest )**.

I configured the xpack successfully ( authentication tested ) , however got stuck in impelementing the HTTPS after following these steps in this URL : [https://www.elastic.co/blog/configuring-ssl-tls-and-https-to-secure-elasticsearch-kibana-beats-and-logstash](https://www.elastic.co/blog/configuring-ssl-tls-and-https-to-secure-elasticsearch-kibana-beats-and-logstash)

From what I understand, the URL above is the tutorial to secure the communication between nodes or from ES to Kibana/Logstash, however I don't need Kibana/Logtash, and since my ES works as standalone, I assume I don't need nodes? However by configuring and ignoring all nodes configuration, my ES can't start properly 🙂

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/a/8/a80821170c43f4a25767a69b66639e239663bac7.png)

In above error log it seems I need xpack.security.http.ssl.key, but this is belong to the node1, which again, I don't need?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/9/d/9d79d4eeff0e21fbc9d5baa04c10e3dc677eb4a5.png) .  
Any idea/tutorial on how to configure it without any Elastic Search cluster? Any help is greatly appreciated.

Current configuration :

```
network.host: 0.0.0.0
#
# Set a custom port for HTTP:
#
http.port: 9203
transport.tcp.port: 9303
transport.host: localhost
processors: 8
thread_pool:
    write:
        queue_size: 350
xpack.security.enabled: true
xpack.security.http.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled: true
xpack.security.http.ssl.certificate_authorities: certs/ca.crt
xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate_authorities : certs/ca.crt
discovery.zen.ping.unicast.hosts: ["MY-Cluster"]
```

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**Author:** ![Magnus\_Kessler](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnus_kessler/32/42001_2.png) [@Magnus\_Kessler](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Magnus_Kessler)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-https-ssl-on-6-8-5-without-clustering/218771/2 "2020-02-11T13:17:15Z")

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From the [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-node.html):

> Any time that you start an instance of Elasticsearch, you are starting a _node_ . A collection of connected nodes is called a [cluster](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.5/modules-cluster.html). If you are running a single node of Elasticsearch, then you have a cluster of one node.

You'll have to create a valid certificate and its key for each Elasticsearch node, and configure the node to use them. Also see the more detailed [documentation](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/configuring-tls.html) on setting up TLS for Elasticsearch.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2020, 1:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/configuration-of-https-ssl-on-6-8-5-without-clustering/218771/3 "2020-03-10T13:17:26Z")

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