problem with Thawte certificate

[rvandam]

I have a reseller with one domain and one ip-address. I have ordered a Thawte ssl certificate for this domain. I have created a .csr and a .key file manually, and used these for ordering the Thawte certificate. I now want to apply this certificate by the admin panel, but i cant get it working...

When I enter the generated key and the Thawte certificate I get an error "invalid key". When I enter the key in the CA root certificate field, this key is ignored and the shared ssl key is used.

How should I proceed?

[rvandam]

I found the solution....

I protected the key with a passphrase. To generete a key without pass use this:

openssl rsa -in domain.key -out domain.pem

Now everything works :-)

[nobaloney]

Are you using DirectAdmin? If so, why not just use the control panel to the create the key and the CSR? If you do, you don't have this problem.

Jeff

[rvandam]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I found out about this option after I send in the CSR to Thawte. So I had to figure this out.

When I generate a key without passphrase everything works as a charm. Perhaps an error "invalid key, or key password protected" would have been more helpful perhaps. But i don't think lots of people will run into this problem.