Setting up the unser certificate in Google Chrome
The user certificate must be installed in the web browser in order to gain access to exam registration with the web browser. The following explains how to install the university certificate:
If you do not yet have a user certificate at this point, the following link will tell you how to obtain one: Obtaining user certificate ("Beschaffung des Hochschulzertifikats")
Please install/configure the eduroam wireless network before setting up the university certificate for the Student Portal.
If the eduroam wireless network has already been configured, the university certificate is also available/integrated for the web browser described here.
- Check that the certificate has been installed correctly by calling up the following URL: https://secure.th-owl.de
- If an error message appears, there is still a problem.
- If the text "Mit gültigem zertifikat verbunden" ("Connected with a valid certificate!) appears, the certificate has been installed correctly in the web browser.
After successfully installing the certificate, read the following chapter: "Logging in/logging out" to find out how to log in to the Student Portal: Login/Logout
- Open the settings in the Chrome browser.
- At the bottom of the "Settings" page, click on "Show advanced settings".
- Now click on "Manage certificates" under "HTTPS/SSL".
- Click on "Import".
- Select the certificate with the file extension .p12, which you have previously downloaded from https://www.th-owl.de/mobile/
- Enter the password. It is the password of your user accounts at the time it was requested.
- Confirm with "Done".