# Kibana 4 reverse proxy and ssl configuration in kibana.yml

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-reverse-proxy-and-ssl-configuration-in-kibana-yml/23618>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 13, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-reverse-proxy-and-ssl-configuration-in-kibana-yml/23618 "2015-05-13T14:12:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dee/32/18876_2.png) [@Dee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dee)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-reverse-proxy-and-ssl-configuration-in-kibana-yml/23618/1 "2015-05-13T14:12:17Z")

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Hi,

I have kibana 4.0.2, when I'm trying to configure kibana.yml to an nginx  
reverse proxy for elasticsearch -

```
elasticsearch_url: "https://ES-VIP:443"

```

I get these errors from kibana and it fails to load -

```
"message":"Authentication 

```

Exception","node\_env":"production","error":{"message":"Authentication  
Exception","name":"Error","stack":"Error: Authentication Exception\n at  
respond  
(/opt/kibana/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:235:15)\n  
at checkRespForFailure  
(/opt/kibana/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/transport.js:203:7)\n  
at HttpConnector.  
(/opt/kibana/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/src/lib/connectors/http.js:156:7)\n  
at IncomingMessage.bound  
(/opt/kibana/src/node\_modules/elasticsearch/node\_modules/lodash-node/modern/internals/baseBind.js:56:17)\n  
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)\n at  
\_stream\_readable.js:944:16\n at process.\_tickCallback (node.js:442:13)\n"}}

What am I doing wrong?

I saw that there's an option to configure SSL certificate for Kibana4, is  
that relevant here?

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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-4-reverse-proxy-and-ssl-configuration-in-kibana-yml/23618/2 "2017-07-06T00:14:17Z")

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