Disabling automatic certificate creation

In some use cases it does not make sense for the user to reuse the certificates generated by TwinCAT/BSD® for the web server. In this use case, automatic synchronization can be disabled and own certificates for the TwinCAT/BSD® web server (nginx) can be used.

To do this, you must first disable automatic certificate creation so that your own certificates are installed and not overwritten by the default Beckhoff certificate.

Proceed as follows:

1. Disable the service IPCDiagnostics so that the certificate is not overwritten by the default Beckhoff certificate.

2. To do this, enter the command doas service IPCDiagnostics disable in the console.

Automatic generation of certificates has been disabled. In the next step, a certificate can be requested from a certificate authority (CA) (see: Requesting or creating an HTTPS certificate).