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Validate and Prepare Certificates for Upload
To validate and prepare certificates for upload:
1 Verify that none of the certificates in the certificate chain are corrupted or using invalid encoding.
To do so, open each certificate in a program such as Notepad or Word, and verify that it contains the following:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...certificate_content...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
2 Change the identity certificate issued to *.ctera.me to certificate.crt.
3 Change the file extension of the other certificates in the certificate chain to crt.
For example, certificate-name.crt.
4 Archive all of the certificates, the identity certificate, the intermediary certificates, and the root self-signed certificate, in a ZIP file called certificate.zip.