File selection

[Giovanni Trentarossi]

hello.

apologies if this should be a duplicate, I couldn't find anything under select/selection. I have a degree in it, i'm a retired developer and the computer guy for f&f but I have zero experience with jellyfin or emby.

a friend wanted me to switch his nas from http to https which I took care of, however when switching jellyfin I've been stumbling with the absolutely simplest task. researching the issue this might be a problem that's been inherited from emby and never corrected: file/directory selection.

I need to upload a .p12 file for the https certificate, and yet i'm unable to. nothing i tried works, that is, neither typing the fully qualified name, nor selecting paths from jellyfin then adding the file name works and leads to a file not found error. the error message doesn't contain the file name, so I can't even figure out what string it composed from the selection which might allow me to correct the problem.

rather than upload an image, 2 lines will do:

Directory1          ->
Directory2          ->

I can navigate the directory tree by clicking on the name or the arrow, but once i reach the dir containing the certificate it won't allow file selection. this is incredible for a file selection feature, what is its purpose exactly? what it does instead is show "...". I have no idea what function the developers meant for those dots because clicking on them or the associated arrow simply clears the path input box.

i don't understand why was it coded in such an obtuse manner, why such a basic problem was never corrected. frankly, i'm ashamed to even ask this question, if i ever tell f&f that i have a masters in it and 30 years of experience but couldn't provide an app with a filename there's going to be... merryment.

could you please help, or at least explain the problem?
thank you ever so much
GT, london

[Tim]

This sounds like you want to use self signed certificates. I personally never used that feature and from what I know, not many developers want to touch that code. We recommend using a reverse proxy instead when possible, such as NGINX, for TLS. My apologies if I misunderstood your question.

[Giovanni Trentarossi]

This sounds like you want to use self signed certificates. I personally never used that feature and from what I know, not many developers want to touch that code. We recommend using a reverse proxy instead when possible, such as NGINX, for TLS. My apologies if I misunderstood your question.

thank you for taking the time to respond. no, that's not the problem. for a basic example: you have a text file under windows you want to modify. you run notepad, do file>open. you get a file selection dialog, right? you navigate to where you have the document and select it, it gets opened. that's what appears to be broken under jellyfin, the way a directory or file stored anywhere are chosen, but even when the fqn is typed into the input box it still fails so i'm obviously missing something.

i've been -frankly- dicking around jellyfin, and the same fs object selection is used throughout. for instance, when adding directories containing videos you want it to handle so it's something every single jellyfin/emby user has succeeded in, and yet i can't because they didn't use standard file selection dialogs so i have no idea how they work

gt, london

[tmsrxzar]

start with how you have installed jellyfin, jellyfin in docker behaves differently from baremetal, and again from windows and again from synology and again from unraid etc etc etc and so on

jellyfin needs to select the file "server side" and does not implement a browser file upload for the cert, that is why there is not a "standard file selection box"

jellyfin needs permission to access the folder it is stored in on the server side

if this is on windows then this is where i get off the train; i cannot offer any further help on windows

[TheDreadPirate]

What Tim said. But if you MUST use the integrated https I think it expected a PEM file.