# How to connect Kibana to Elasticsearch when http ssl is enabled

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch-when-http-ssl-is-enabled/167827
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [February 11, 2019, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch-when-http-ssl-is-enabled/167827 "2019-02-11T10:51:36Z")
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### Author: ![li\_jessen2016](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/li_jessen2016/32/38817_2.png) [@li\_jessen2016](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/li_jessen2016)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2019, 7:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-connect-kibana-to-elasticsearch-when-http-ssl-is-enabled/167827/10 "2019-02-16T07:44:45Z")

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I think you are wrong. If you enable https to elasticsearch, you must also enable https between kibana server and browser, otherwise it shows "a secured connection is required for log in".  
I have worked it out.

> [@What does "A secure connection is required for log in" mean?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/what-does-a-secure-connection-is-required-for-log-in-mean/168355/5):
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> It is really not a simple task. It cost me around 6 hours to figure it out. Some facts are missing in the online documents of Elasticsearch. I am using CentOS 7, elasticsearch and kibana 6.5. (1) generate server certificate for kibana Use elasticsearch-certutil in the installation directory of elasticsearch, since kibana installation directory has no such utility details see: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/certutil.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/certutil.html) But you need to create a yml file for …

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