# Starting Fscrawler with SSL error

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-fscrawler-with-ssl-error/375028>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 25, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-fscrawler-with-ssl-error/375028 "2025-02-25T14:56:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/starting-fscrawler-with-ssl-error/375028/4 "2025-02-25T22:41:16Z")

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If you are using a self-signed certificate (default behavior of Elasticsearch), you might need to tell fscrawler about that.

Have a look at [Elasticsearch settings — FSCrawler 2.10-SNAPSHOT documentation](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/admin/fs/elasticsearch.html#ssl-configuration)

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