# How to enable HTTPS for kibana?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-https-for-kibana/124226
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 16, 2018, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-https-for-kibana/124226 "2018-03-16T07:46:51Z")
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### Author: ![a5a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-https-for-kibana/124226/2 "2018-03-16T16:18:29Z")

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[Configuring Security in Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/6.2/using-kibana-with-security.html)

Check out that doc, but skip over all the parts that have to do with security on Elasticsearch. So, from a quick glance, you'll care about steps 6 and 8. Basically, there are separate settings you'll need in kibana.yml to enable SSL between the browser and Kibana server.

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