Bots-monitor over HTTPS Introduction

This feature is introduced in bots 2.1.0.
This works with cherrypy > 3.2.0 in combination with python 2.6 or 2.7. In python 2.5 this works (using extra dependency pyOpenssl) but gives problems with reading plugins.

Procedure:

1. you will need an SSL certificate. You can use self-signed certificates.

2. in bots/config/bots.ini uncomment options ssl_certificate and ssl_private_key (in section webserver), and set these to the right value, eg:

   ssl_certificate = /mysafeplace/mycert.pem 
   ssl_private_key = /mysafeplace/mycert.pem
   #In this example certificate and private key are in the same pem-file.
   

3. restart bots-webserver

4. point your browser to the right https-address, eg: https://localhost:8080

Tips

If you are using cherrypy and receive an error "ssl_error_rx_record_too_long" try the 2-line fix at https://bitbucket.org/cherrypy/cherrypy/issue/1293/ssl-broken-under-pypy-221

You can create self-signed certificates at http://www.selfsignedcertificate.com/

You can configure port=443 in bots.ini then just point your browser to https://localhost