“HTTPS required” while logging in to Keycloak as a

Question

I am using Keycloak (version 1.0.4.Final) in JBOSS AS 7.1.1 server. The server is on Amazon AWS.

I am able to start the jboss server with keycloak. i can see the keycloak default screen while hitting the URL - ServerIP:8080/auth

But when i am clicking on the Administration Consolelink to go to the login screen. I am getting a page saying - HTTPS required

The server is on AWS, changing to "ssl-required" : "none", in General Adapter Config has not helped.

How to resolve this issue?

Edit: I was not getting this issue in keycloak-1.2.0.Beta1 version.

Answer 1

You can use the keycloak command line admin tool to change the setting as long as it can authenticate to a local IP address. You can temporarily launch Keycloak on localhost to make this change.

kcadm.sh config credentials --server http://localhost:8080/auth --realm master --user admin
kcadm.sh update realms/realmname -s sslRequired=NONE

Obviously, make sure to replace realm names, username, port, etc as required.

For more information on getting started with the Admin CLI, see documentation: http://www.keycloak.org/docs/3.3/server_admin/topics/admin-cli.html

Answer 2

This is quite old and now on release versions (I am using Keycloak 1.9.3 demo / Developer bundle), however to save some poor soul some time....

Keycloak now defaults to HTTPS for all external IP addresses. Unfortunately, from what I can tell the Wildfly instance that comes with the demo bundle does NOT support HTTPS. Makes for a pretty insane default if you're installing Keycloak on a remote machine as there is effectively no way to access the Keycloak admin console out of the box.

At this point, you have two options; 1) Install HTTPS in Wildfly or 2) Tunnel via SSH into the remote machine and proxy your browser through it, go to the admin console and turn off the SSL requirement (Realm Settings -> Login -> Require SSL). This works because SSL is not required for local connections.

Remember to first create the admin user by going to $KEYCLOAK_HOME/keycloak/bin and running ./add-user-keycloak -r master -u <> -p <>. This add user script is not interactive like the Wildfly add user script is, you need to put it all on the command line.

Hope this helps!

Answer 3

If you want to disable it for your realm and have no possibility to use UI, do it directly on the database:

update REALM set ssl_required='NONE' where id = 'master';