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Using SSL with Posit Workbench

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  • Bruno Quinart

    The document doesn't detail why you would need seperate certificates for the launcher vs server. This is not intuitive to me. Would it be possible to develop on why it is not the case?

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  • Cecil Singh

    Hi Bruno,

    That's a good question and I'm glad you brought this up. The Common Name(CN) for an SSL certificate will usually be specific to the name of the server that you're using the certificate for (disregarding wildcard certificates and SAN certificates here). Typically, RStudio Workbench will be available externally to the machine itself and can have an external-facing DNS name unique to your organization. For example, my-org.rsw-hostname.com. In this scenario, the server will likely be running on my-org.rsw-hostname.com, however, the launcher will be running on localhost. In this case, your server certificates CN will be my-org.rsw-hostname.com, and your Launcher certificates CN will be localhost.

    You can use both the server and launcher on the same domain name so that they can share certificates, however, we wouldn't recommend this as best practice.

    I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any follow-up questions

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