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Cannot install SSL certificate
Hello,
When I try to install SSL certificates (I had to create them manually because pbiviz --create-cert didn't worked) with pbiviz --install-cert and I recieve the following error message:
The string is missing the terminator: '.
+ CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : TerminatorExpectedAtEndOfString
I checked on the forum and I have to clue where the error can be. Does someone already encounter this problem and how to solve it ?
PS: I'm using Windows 7 64bits.
Thanks
4 Replies
- v-viig
Community Champion
Looks like there're some issues with PowerShell. What version of PowerShell is installed?
What issues did return --create-cert command?
Ignat Vilesov,
Software Engineer
Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals
Hello,
I'm using the version belown of PowerShell ( from $PSVersionTable.PSVersion)
Major Minor Build Revision
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3 0 -1 -1I think that the problem with pbiviz --create-cert is that %APPDATA% has space in it. Here is the error message
req: Use -help for summary.
error Create certificate error: { Error: Command failed: openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout C:\Données d'applications\cpassuello\npm\node_modules\powerbi-visuals-tools\certs\PowerBICustomVisualTest_private.key -x509 -days 180 -out C:\Données d'applications\cpassuello\npm\node_modules\powerbi-visuals-tools\certs\PowerBICustomVisualTest_public.cer -subj "/CN=localhost"
req: Use -help for summary.
at checkExecSyncError (child_process.js:601:13)
at execSync (child_process.js:641:13)
at createCertFile (C:\Données d'applications\cpassuello\npm\node_modules\powerbi-visuals-tools\bin\pbiviz.js:160:25)
at Command.<anonymous> (C:\Données d'applications\cpassuello\npm\node_modules\powerbi-visuals-tools\node_modules\commander\index.js:395:35)When I try to create manualy certificates with the command line used by pbiviz and adding quotes (see below), it works ok
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout "C:\Données d'applications\cpassuello\npm\node_modules\powerbi-visuals-tools\certs\PowerBICustomVisualTest_private.key" -x509 -days 180 -out "C:\Données d'applications\cpassuello\npm\node_modules\powerbi-visuals-tools\certs\PowerBICustomVisualTest_public.cer" -subj "/CN=localhost"
May be it's the same problem with pbiviz --install-cert (space in %APPDATA%). Unfortunately I cannot change this easily, it's a corporate policy.
PS: I reverted to powerbi-visuals-tools version 1.11.3 after reading some posts but it didn't fixed the problem
PPS: I installed OpenSSL because I'm on Windows 7 but it seems to work fine.
- v-viig
