Edge View Certificate Information
Mar02

Edge View Certificate Information

Edge View Certificate Information KB ID 0001815 Problem Not sure why, but I spend a large amount of time working on certificate problems, being asked questions about certificates, or fixing certificate problems. For certs that are web presented, back in the days of IE I could simply do this. For those sniggering at my IE use – I typically work on client’s sites where I can’t go round installing browsers that are not terrible!...

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Certificate Chain Incomplete
Jun23

Certificate Chain Incomplete

KB ID 0001570 Problem The certificate here at PNL expired over the weekend, I got a new one and installed it. All appeared to be fine until I did an online check to make sure it was OK.  The server’s certificate chain is incomplete Solution I had this problem once before, back then I was using Apache and CentOS7, and things were a little different, (now I’m using NGINX and Ubuntu 18.04). Essentially you see this error...

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CentOS 7 – Serving HTTPS with Apache2
Jun23

CentOS 7 – Serving HTTPS with Apache2

KB ID 0001210   Problem  This week I’ve been working on changing the site over to https. Buying a digital certificate used to be an expensive long winded affair, but not anymore. A quick internet search turned up a 3 year SSL certificate for less than 15 quid. Getting the certificate was the easy bit, getting it installed so that Apache would use it was another ‘challenge’. On a scale of one to ten, I’m about a...

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NDES – Fails to Issue Certificates (Signature Algorithm)
Nov17

NDES – Fails to Issue Certificates (Signature Algorithm)

KB ID 0001021  Problem I was trying to enroll some ASA firewalls to NDES to get some certificates. Each time the process failed with the following error. % Error in receiving Certificate Authority certificate: status = FAIL, cert length = 0 That’s a pretty generic error, and does not give me a lot to go on. So I thought I would try from another network device, (a Cisco Catalyst switch). It’s a little easier to...

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