Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate sent by the server was invalid and this item will not be crawled

On starting the full crawl of the default content source I received the  error. “The secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate sent by the server was invalid and this item will not be crawled

It was because one of the site was SSL enabled. 

Solved it in the following manner,
1. Navigate to Central Administration.
2. Go to Application Management > Manage Service Applications and click on your Search Service.
3. In the left Navigation, click on “Farm Search Administration”
4. Under the Farm-Level Search Settings, click on Ignore SSL warnings status “NO” (by default is No). Select the Ignore SSL certificate name warnings check box if you want to trust that sites are legitimate even if their certificate names are not exact matches

 
 













5. Restart Incremental or full crawl as needed.

2 comments:

  1. What if I want to correct the SSL certificate issue instead of ignore it.
    How would we do that?

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  2. This error is usually caused if your,
    Certificate is expired
    Certificate is not signed by an trusted authority
    Certificate name and site name mismatched

    You can try fixing any above issue and see if it fixes the issue and I had not tried this.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee792873(v=office.15).aspx

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