Android app + SSL can't login (self hosted)

Self-Hosted | v4/Legacy
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Hi there,

I configured Invoice Ninja to use HTTPS, configured a self signed certificate and enabled it in Apache.

It works fine when I go to https://myserver and I just have to allow an exception since it’s a self signed certificate.

When I try to login via the Android app, it says:

CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED: self Signed certificate (handshake: cc:354).

So how can I allow signing in via the Android app with a self signed certificate?

App was logging in to my self host just fine prior to using SSL.

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Hi, I suggest using https://letsencrypt.org

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Thanks Hillel, I changed to a letsencrypt cert and am able to login fine via the Android app now.

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Awesome, glad to hear it!

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Hi,

I have the same issue, however i am using local CA cert not a self signed, and the root CA i have is added to my trusted authorities in my phone.

Other apps hosted on the same server is working fine with no issues, and i don’t have the option to use letsencrypt as this is not a public domain.

Any idea how to get it working ??

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Hi,

I suggest using Let’s Encrypt instead

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Hello,

I don’t have a public domain to use for letsencrypt cert, so it is not a option as far as i know.

As i mentioned, this is an in-house CA cert and the root CA is trusted by the phone.

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Using Let’s Encrypt typically solves cert problems

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Hi,

Not sure which part of the article you sent should help me.

When I read the article it is not supported to issue a cert for localhost.

Similar to my situation i am using domain abc.loc which not a public domain.

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Sorry, I misread the article.

I’m not sure, I assume the problem is with the certificate. If you’re a developer it should be possible to build a custom version of the app which overrides the certificate check.

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I am jot unfortunately, which CA store the app use to verify the certificate though?

My certificate is signed by a CA that my phone trust.

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I assume the app should use the phone’s default but I see many matches on Google when searching “CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED: self Signed certificate”

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I have bitwarden application on the same phone, and using the same certificate, and it is working fine after i have installed the root CA into my phone.

Hopefully we can have someone who can look deeper at the code and help me to get this fixed.

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I’m the main developer of the Android app…

I think the problem is that the programming language we’re using doesn’t support self signed certificates. I don’t have a solution for v4 but we’ll look into this for v5.

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I can acces invoice ninja using the web browser, the issue is on the android mobile app.

Also it I can access the app perfectly using my mobile internet browser and it doesn’t complain about the certificate either which means the browser recognized the root certificate i added to phone.

Thanks for your answers anyway, and i have disabled theb auto forward to ssl for now and hopefully will get a working version at some point.

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The problem is caused by the mobile app’s programming language. Dart uses a virtual machine which has it’s own root certificate, there are more details here:

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Thanks, this post is 4 years old, do we know when V5 is expected?

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