#TRACCAR CONNECTION ERROR HOW TO#
#TRACCAR CONNECTION ERROR INSTALL#

If all goes well, you should get ‘Success’ Next, click ‘Request Certificate’ to request your free valid SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt for your Traccar installation: If all goes well, you should get this popup: Next, go to the Advanced tab and click ‘Test’ to verify if everything is setup correctly

The rest of the information should now autofill, based on the details you entered in IIS.

Select the website you created in IIS, in my case named ‘Traccar’: So, first, go to ‘Settings’ and set a ‘New Contact’: Before we can request a new certificate, we first need to setup a new contact. Certify will automatically renew your certificates before they expire, so it pretty much takes care of itself.Īfter installing, open Certify.

#TRACCAR CONNECTION ERROR INSTALL#

In the window that opens, fill in the following details:Ĭhange the variables to meet your environment.Ĭlose IIS for now and download and install ‘Certify the web’, a free ( up to 5 websites) SSL Certificate Manager for Windows (powered by Let’s Encrypt). Just search for ‘URL Rewrite’ in the search options and click ‘Add’.Īfter installing, do the same for the Application Request Routing 3.0 add-on module: From Windows Server 2012 R2 and up, you can use the Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebPI) to download and install the URL Rewrite Module. sync your update with the rest of the world.)įirst, install the URL Rewrite add-on module. Please note that it can take up to 24 hours, but usually no more than 1-2 hours, for your DNS servers to ‘propagate’, i.e. replace ‘123.123.123.123’ with the IP of your Traccar server and ‘’ with your own (sub)domain. (Of course, in the screenshot above, change the variables to meet your environment, i.e.

A Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), for example ‘’, with an A record pointing to the IP of your Traccar server:.

A working Traccar instance, reachable over http (by default installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 or Windows Server 2016.

We’ll be using Let’s Encrypt to generate a free valid certificate for your Traccar installation. Since Traccar has no native support for encrypted connections, we’ll do so by setting up a Reverse Proxy using IIS ( which is the recommended method by the developer). Traccar is a free and open source modern GPS tracking system.

#TRACCAR CONNECTION ERROR HOW TO#

In this guide, I’m going to show you how to secure your Traccar installation with SSL, so that it can be reached over https instead of http.

Traccar connection error