Weeks and hours I have spent trying to get self-signed certificates to work. Finally had it working except my browser's did not recognize Cert as from a CA authority. (Thought I imported everything needed).

Giving up, and will go with the easiest way to get this done. I don't want to expose my Unraid to the Internet, but looks like I have no choice.

I even tried UnRaid's SSL: Yes and Local: TLD Local and Provisioning. The links that are generated all give me the browser warnings. (Which I understand I should not).

If I click on https://192.168.xx.xxx/ I get a browser warning.

If I click on https://UnRaid.local/ I get a browser warning.

If I click on https://192-168.xx-xxx.3855c481cd2ee31f586ef3f634076199d1b49eae.myunraid.net/ , I get a browser warning.

Help, what's the best way to get there and put this SSL stuff to rest. Simplest and ideally not opening anything to the Internet.

Take a look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTK4OwpxFek

Following the video carefully and enabled provisioning, unlike the instructor, I get an error when clicking on the provided long URL. (I have tried this previously with an error as well).

I get a similar error with Chrome.

The provisioned link does not work.

I used the provided url: https://192-168-60-235.2855c481cd2ee31f586ef3f634076199d1b48eae.myunraid.net/

Edited December 18, 2025Dec 18 by RaidPC
Added specific url

18 minutes ago, RaidPC said:

The provisioned link does not work.

That suggests to me your router is not correctly configured to port forward the HTTPS port.

Be sure that you have read the help for setting the usage of SSL/TLS. There are a few gotcha's....

I went into my router, dd-wrt, and set Port Forwarding: set my Unraid at "Protocal TCP" and" Port From 80" with the "IP address" of the Unraid Server "to Port 443."

Same error when I click on the fore-mentioned long link. As screen capture. We can't connect to the server at .....

It's not port 80 that you need to forward:

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-connect/remote-access/#initial-setup

I checked one docker, Nextcloud, that by default wanted to use port 443; but I had changed it to Host Port 4743 during the setup and that is the port I use when accessing it.

I have Pi-hole forwarding Unraid to Nginx and the DNS part works fine with its DNS name. I run into problems when I try to tie it down to HTTPS. I think I need to take the unraid_bundle.pem file that resides in the boot thumb drive into Nginx and add it under certificates, but the latter does not recognize that extension.