Validate and Prepare Certificates for Upload
The next step is to 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.com" 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.
For example:
