# Do you need to have the shield plugin to be able to use HTTPS?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-you-need-to-have-the-shield-plugin-to-be-able-to-use-https/54166>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [June 28, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-you-need-to-have-the-shield-plugin-to-be-able-to-use-https/54166 "2016-06-28T13:29:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![chagara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@chagara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chagara)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-you-need-to-have-the-shield-plugin-to-be-able-to-use-https/54166/1 "2016-06-28T13:29:07Z")

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I was trying to follow this documentation [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/ssl-tls.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/shield/current/ssl-tls.html) but, it mentions shield and I was wondering if its needed to be able to have HTTPS on elasticsearch?

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**Author:** ![jaymode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jaymode/32/50103_2.png) [@jaymode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaymode)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-you-need-to-have-the-shield-plugin-to-be-able-to-use-https/54166/2 "2016-06-28T13:41:00Z")

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Yes you need to have shield to enable HTTPS when following those instructions.

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**Author:** ![chagara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@chagara](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/chagara)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-you-need-to-have-the-shield-plugin-to-be-able-to-use-https/54166/3 "2016-06-28T13:51:58Z")

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Is there another way to be able to use HTTPS without shield?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-you-need-to-have-the-shield-plugin-to-be-able-to-use-https/54166/4 "2016-06-30T18:09:26Z")

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Sure, you could put Kibana behind a reverse proxy that exposes an HTTPS interface and connects to Kibana via HTTP.

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 1:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/do-you-need-to-have-the-shield-plugin-to-be-able-to-use-https/54166/5 "2017-07-06T13:43:12Z")

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