New Apache Certificate Generate New Key and CSR cd /etc/pki/tls/ openssl genrsa -out private/*FQDN*.1.key 2048 openssl req -new -key private/*FQDN*.1.key \ -out certs/*FQDN*.1.csr Country (C): AU State (S): Queensland Location (L): Brisbane Organisation (O): Griffith University Organisational Unit (OU): ICTS Common Name (CN): *FQDN* *** do not set email, passwords, or optional company name *** Mail the generated CSR (BEGIN..END lines) to Security Officer (J.Braine) Save the signed CRT into /etc/pki/tls/certs/*FQDN*.1.crt Install Certificate Chain Goto Thawte page https://search.thawte.com/support/ssl-digital-certificates/index?page=content&actp=CROSSLINK&id=AR1373 Download Primary and Secondary CA Certificates "SSL_PrimaryCA.pem" and "SSL_SecondaryCA.pem" Concatanate them into a CA Certificate file cat SSL_*CA.pem > /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle_thawte.crt rm SSL_*CA.pem hupwww Reconfigure Apache SSL certificate files vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/*FQDN*.1.crt SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/*FQDN*.1.key SSLCACertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle_thawte.crt service httpd restart tail /var/log/httpd/error_log Testing Note "Firefox" and "Chrome" loads page without a 'certificate problem However "wget" and "lynx" fails wget -v https://*FQDN*/ ... ERROR: cannot verify *FQDN*'s certificate, issued by `/C=US/O=Thawte, Inc./CN=Thawte SSL CA': Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. To connect to *FQDN( insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.