We have a web server running apache and a custom web app that we log into from a web browser and it ask you to except the certificate and all is well. I now have an user who is using a window server 2008 and he wants to manually import the *.cer file into his browser to be able to login. My question are:

1 - What is the file that is being imported into the browser? *.pem *.crt

2 - I see on our server that we have our certs I believe located in the /etc/pki/tls/certs. The openRADIUS servers that I have created, this is the directory to where it is stored.Is this the typical placement for certs.

3 -If the files is a .cert or *.pem than could I use openssl to convert them to the appropiate *.cer file for IE7

Ok so in response to my own question, I came up with my own answer, sometimes that happens on occassion:

1 - The file that is being imported into browsers are *.crt files located using apache in /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts.d/01_default_ssl_vhost.conf

2 - Though you can save your certs in any folder with the appropriate permissions most using openssl are saved under:

3 - You can use openssl and others to convert files from *.crt to *.cer certificates:

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Thanks for posting your solution!