# Rejecting my self-signed certificate
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rejecting-my-self-signed-certificate/72088
**Category:** General
**Created:** [12 December 2022 15:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rejecting-my-self-signed-certificate/72088 "2022-12-12T15:49:38Z")
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### Author:  [@JohnInWI](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JohnInWI)
#### Post date: [12 December 2022 15:49 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rejecting-my-self-signed-certificate/72088/1 "2022-12-12T15:49:38Z")
Attempting to use https with Node-RED. Worked up a pair of .pem files with Openssl that test out okay with the OpenSSL utilities, but when I uncommented and set the paths in the Node-RED settings.js file, I get this error when re-starting:0909006C:PEM routines:get\_name:no start line
I'm not well versed in SSL certificates at all, but they look okay to me- tried creating new files a number of times with no success. It seems Node-RED is finding the .pem files, but does not like the format? Is there a better way for me to create the keys than Openssl? Or, more likely, my lack of knowledge is hindering progress.....
I am using a AWS EC2 Ubuntu server to host Node-RED.
Any help appreciated
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [10 February 2023 15:50 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/rejecting-my-self-signed-certificate/72088/2 "2023-02-10T15:50:12Z")
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