Self Hosted Instance [2.21.7] Chrome says 'Dangerous'

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Hi, I never had this issue before, but recently Chrome has been telling me that my self-hosted instance is a dangerous site. I’m not sure what’s going on. Does this have to do with the latest stable version? Any help here would be appreciated. Thank you so much.

Hi @Mitch_the_fish, Welcome!
I do not think it is related to the latest version, but in case it is for you, I think it is probably something with your DOMAIN provider or SSL. I also have a local instance with the latest version, and it works well.

Still, give your instance a restart along with your domain maybe that would help.

See this:
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/my-site-shows-dangerous-site/709583

This may help

Aha. If it is such an issue, why would it only have happened now? I’ve been running this instance for six months…?

@Mitch_the_fish, I understand this is pretty wild and random, but security scanners regularly update these things that a site is dangerous or not.Youu can submit a request here:

or

And point that to your domain, I think they will surely help you out, or maybe this can be temporary.

This is almost always an SSL certificate issue on the hosting side.

Here are some things to check:

-Whether your instance is running on HTTPS or HTTP especially for sites that handle logins Chrome will flag simple HTTP connections as dangerous or “Not Secure”

-If you do have HTTPS, check whether your SSL certificate is expired because that can trigger the same warning.

-If your certificate is self-signed, Chrome will flag it by default since it isn’t issued by a trusted authority.

-Whether you are accessing it via IP address directly, Chrome considers those unsafe as well

Ultimately it all depends on your setup, if you are using a reverse proxy, like Nginx or Caddy. Caddy in particular handles SSL automatically via Let’s Encrypt which can make things much simpler. If you share how your instance is set up it would be easier to point you to the right fix.