Hello there,
I’m trying to setup auto-update for an addon that is designed for internal use inside the firm I work for.
My problem is that we don’t have an internal https server. So I’ve set the update_url to point to an http address of an intranet server here and created the accordingly needed updates.json but I just can’t find a way to get it right.
So is it really possible to achieve auto update for an add-on hosted on an intranet server ?
Thanks for your help.
Have you looked into Let’s Encrypt? It should be fairly easy to set up an HTTPS server.
If that doesn’t work, I think the only way to get updates of plain HTTP is to sign your updates, and I think that only works with the old RDF update file. See this documentation for an explanation:
As far as I remember LetsEncrypt requires visibility of the server on the internet so that it can verify the host, and the host is an intranet server so the verification will fail.
I am in the new format.
I have placed a mirroring script on a outside visible https server hat mirrors the intranet updates.json and it works as expected. Not so good a solution but it does the job.