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Osama_Ibrahim_M
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Apr 16, 2019

SSL Certification Import

Dears, am trying to import new SSL certificate, but am getting below error, please your support.   01070712:3: unable to validate certificate, invalid x509 file (/Common/WC_2019.crt).   thanks ...
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Andy_McGrath
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Apr 16, 2019

Guessing the certificate is not a valid x509 file. You may find the format is incorrect i.e. you have a DER encoded certificate and so need to convert to a PEM (none encoded certificate).

If you open the certificate file in a text editor should start with something like 

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
if not and you know it is a valid certificate it will be the format.

You can use 

openssl
to do this:

openssl x509 -in cert.crt -inform der -outform pem -out cert.pem