"Certificate 1 is expired" installing wildcard SSL from cPanel

robb3369

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We have a few sites we use for testing and demo purposes on one cpanel account that has several sub-domains using the same wildcard SSL certificate.

We've noticed that in the last few months we've been having issues installing the wildcard SSL certificate on one of the sub-domains via the "Use Certificate for New Site"... We always get the error "Certificate 1 is expired"...

Now, we can install the certificate via WHM using the "Install an SSL Certificate on a Domain" without the error.

Any thoughts?
 

cPanelMichael

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Hello :)

Could you open a support ticket using the link in my signature so we can take a closer look and determine why this error message is occurring? You can post the ticket number here so we can update this thread with the outcome.

Thank you.
 

cPanelMichael

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To update, it looks like the OpenSSL verifier is determining that the SSL cert is expired. The user was asked to provide an updated certificate if possible.

Thank you.
 

robb3369

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Actually it was the Globalsign Root CA expired on Jan 28, 2014 and the the ca-bundle.crt was not updated even after running the "yum update ca-certificates" command, but the ca-bundle.trust.crt file was updated...

So I copied ca-bundle.trust.crt to ca-bundle.crt and was able to move the SSL cert to other hosts with no error.
 

cPanelMichael

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Thank you for updating us with the outcome.