Installing and Setting Up SSL for Subsonic on Windows
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Full steps can be found at https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0057.html
Prerequisites
- A XCA PKI database https://youtu.be/ezzj3x207lQ
Create Your SSL Certificate
01. Launch XCA
02. Open the PKI database if it is not already (File ≫ Open DataBase), enter password
03. Click on the Certificates tab, right click on your Intermediate CA certificate
04. Select New
05. On the Source tab, make sure Use this Certificate for signing is selected
06. Verify your Intermediate CA certificate is selected from the drop down
07. Click the Subject tab
08. Complete the Distinguished Name section
internalName: Subsonic SSL
countryName: US
stateOrProvinceName: Virginia
localityName: Northern
organizationName: i12bretro
organizationUnitName: i12bretro Certificate Authority
commonName: subsonic.i12bretro.local
09. Click the Generate a New Key button
10. Enter a name and set the key size to at least 2048
11. Click Create
12. Click on the Extensions tab
13. Select End Entity from the type list
14. Click Edit next to Subject Alternative Name
15. Add any DNS or IP addresses that the certificate will identify
16. Update the validity dates to fit your needs
17. Click the Key Usage tab
18. Under Key Usage select Digital Signature, Key Encipherment
19. Under Extended Key Usage select Web Server and Web Client Authentication
20. Click the Netscape tab
21. Select SSL Server
22. Click OK to create the certificate
Exporting Required Files
01. In XCA, click on the Certificates tab
02. Right click the SSL certificate ≫ Export ≫ File
03. Set the file name with a .crt extension and verify the export format is PKCS #12 (*.p12)
04. Enter the password subsonic and confirm, Click OK
05. Click OK
Installing Subsonic and Initial Setup
01. Download Subsonic https://sourceforge.net/projects/subsonic/files/subsonic/6.1.6/subsonic-6.1.6-setup.exe/download
02. Install Subsonic
03. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:Port
04. Login with username: admin password: admin
05. Go to Settings ≫ Users
06. Check the Change Password box
07. Input a new password twice and click save to secure the admin account
08. Go to Settings ≫ Media Folders
09. Under the Add media folder heading add your music directory
10. Click the Save button
11. Click the Scan media folders now button
12. Click the Home button in the top navigation
13. You should see music from your library starting to populate
Applying the SSL Certificates to Subsonic
01. Stop the Subsonic service
02. Right click the start button ≫ Command Prompt (Admin)
03. Run the following command
taskkill /f /im "subsonic-agent-elevated.exe"
04. Navigate to the Subsonic installation directory in Explorer
05. Extract subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar
06. Download Keystore Explorer https://keystore-explorer.org/downloads.html
07. Run kse.exe
08. Select File ≫ Open ≫ and select subsonic.keystore from the extracted jar
09. Enter subsonic as the keystore password
10. Delete the subsonic entry, this is the self-signed SSL certificate used for https by default
11. Select Tools ≫ Import Key Pair
12. Select PKCS #12, Click OK
13. Click Browse and navigate to the .p12 file exported from XCA earlier
14. Enter subsonic as the Decryption password
15. Enter subsonic as the alias, click OK
16. Enter subsonic as the password and confirm, click OK
17. Select File ≫ Save
18. Navigate to the extracted jar files in Explorer
19. Select all the files ≫ Right Click ≫ Send To ≫ Compressed (zipped) folder
20. Rename the zip file created subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar
21. Right click the created subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar ≫ Copy
22. Navigate to the Subsonic installation directory in Explorer
23. Renamed the existing subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar to subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar.orig
24. Paste the newly created subsonic-booter-jar-with-dependencies.jar
25. Right click subsonic-agent-elevated.exe ≫ Run as administrator
26. If it doesn't show, double click the Subsonic icon in the system tray
27. Click the Settings tab
28. Check the Enable https on port box
29. Enter a port to run https on
30. Click the Save settings button
31. Click the Status tab
32. Click the Start button to start the Subsonic service
33. Open a web browser and navigate to https://DNSorIP:Port
34. Subsonic should now be running securely with https using the new certificate
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