Hi all, I migrated a website onto a new server. So far everything works, but I need to import the certs. I have a directory with the name secure.foo.com. In it there is a secure.foo.com.crt and a gd_bundle.crt. These were given to me by the old server's owner. I tried to find where they were in the original server, and see if they would work on the new. But they didn't. What am I doing wrong? BTW, both servers will be named and look exactly the same.

we've no idea what you've done wrong as you've not told us what you've done at all. What are these certs even for??

I migrated from one server to another. I was emailed security certs. I think they're SSL Certs. They have a .crt extension. There is one of them with the name of the server. There is another one with the name I typed above.

yes, good for you. That has nothing to do with what the certificates are actually for though. https? ldaps? smtps?

I thought if they were SSL certs they would be HTTPS?

In any case, when I click on a secure area of the new website I get a certification error in the browser. Probably because I need to put those certs in there. Can these certs be migrated from one server to another even if the second server is almost like the original one, but on a new OS?

You don't know what you even want these certs for? SSL certs can be used in a HUGE number of ways... You can copy the certs for Apache easily, if you have the same ssl.conf (or whichever config file references the certs) then as long as the files are in the location referenced, then it should pick them up fine. There is no black magic whatsoever.

I must not be explaining myself very well. Let me try again....

Two years ago I setup a LAMP server for a website company. The owner of the server used the GUI to enter whatever certs he needed for the server. What certs he needed I didn't know since that wasn't my job. I was just paid to setup LAMP and Plesk, and he would do the rest.

Fast forward two years...the owner contacts me and wants the server moved. No problem. I setup LAMP on the new server. I got the new server looking like the old one except for the certs and minus Plesk which he doesn't want. Where do I find the old certs on the old server to put on the new? Where do I place them on the new? The owner of the server isn't using a GUI this time so I have to enter the certs myself, but I have no clue where to look or what I'm looking for. Which is why I am asking in here.

i've no idea where you'd find the old ones. look in plesk or explore under /etc/pki/ or similar possible places. if it is apache using these certs then the apache configs will reference it.

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The default location of certs on CentOS/RH5 is
/etc/pki/tls/certs/

You also need the keys for the certs you are trying to use, below is the default path, usually a ".key" file.
/etc/pki/tls/private/

You need to find out where your apache config is looking at though
grep secure.foo.com.crt /etc/httpd/conf.d/*conf

Copy the certificate and key file to the locations as specified in your apache config. chmod 400 key file.

service httpd restart

Look at error log and see if there are any errors. It will show you details like certificate not found or key not found etc.

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