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Brian_Kenworthy
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Jul 22, 2009

Add root CA to ca-bundle?

Hi all,     VeriSign has started signing certificates with a new intermediate root CA for their PKI customers - VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G2. I do not see this certificate in the...
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nitass_89166
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Sep 12, 2011
1/ What do I use for the rootCA.crt? I don't see this file in /config/ssl/ssl.crt ??

 

rootCA.crt is root certificate from your CA. you should be able to get it from the CA website.

 

 

2/ The rootCA is suppose to be optional, so I've tried it without the rootCA but when I run that against the site's crt, I get this error:

 

i believe u have to put root certificate in the chain.crt to make openssl verify return OK. anyway, root certificate is not required in chain file (since it must be installed in browser).
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    Nath
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    Mar 17, 2016
    Hi Nitass, I am a little bit confused on I put my SSL cert and rootCA and create a bundle then use this bundle to Trusted Certificate Authorities but still no luck. Do you have any suggestions Sir?