# Elastic Search Certificate

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-certificate/185302>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [June 12, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-certificate/185302 "2019-06-12T00:00:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Meet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Meet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Meet)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 12:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-certificate/185302/1 "2019-06-12T00:00:34Z")

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Hi,  
Is there any way to give absolute path to the certificate and key instead of config folder?

xpack.security.transport.ssl.key: absolutepath/ca.key

xpack.security.transport.ssl.certificate: absolutepath/ca.crt

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**Author:** ![jpcarey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jpcarey/32/46668_2.png) [@jpcarey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpcarey)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 12:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-certificate/185302/2 "2019-06-12T00:23:49Z")

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No, this is due to the java security manager restricting to only whitelisted locations.

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 6:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-certificate/185302/3 "2019-06-12T06:33:30Z")

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You can use an absolute path if you want, but the files must be in the config directory.

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**Author:** ![Meet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@Meet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Meet)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-certificate/185302/4 "2019-06-12T08:40:35Z")

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Thank You!

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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 10, 2019, 8:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-certificate/185302/5 "2019-07-10T08:40:37Z")

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