Installation of certificate of
certificate authority
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Written by Petr Sakar, Chare
(saki@chare.eu)
4.1.2006, last update 23.5.2012
version 1.0
1. Purpose of installation
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Our company is using own
certificate authority to issue server certificates. Thus browsers
without imported certificate of our certificate authority display one
of following warnings:
- there is a problem with site's
security certificate (MS Internet Explorer).
- unable to verify the identity
of www.chare.eu as a trusted site (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome)
After installation of certificate
this warning disappears
2. Installation of certificate
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2.1 Internet Explorer
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Please download certificate from
followning link by clicking ot it:
http://www.chare.eu/docs/certificates/ca.crt
Select option "Open this file
from its current location" when file download dialog is displayed (show me ...)
or click button "Open" for newer versions of browser (show me (IE6)...)
(show me (IE8)...).
Click on button "Install Certificate" after dialog with title "Certificate" is displayed
(show me (IE6)...)(show me (IE8)...).
Click on button "Next" after dialog with title "Welcome to the certificate manager import wizard" is
displayed (show me (IE6)...)(show me (IE8)...).
Keep default selection "Automatically select the certificate store based on type of certificate" and click on button "Next" after dialog with title "Select a certificate store" is displayed. (show me (IE6)...)(show me (IE8)...)
Click on button "Finish" after dialog with title "Compliting Certificate manager import wizard" is displayed.
(show me (IE6)...)(show me (IE8)...)
Click on button "Yes" to answer question "Do you want to ADD the following certificate to the Root Store ?".
(show me (IE6)...)(show me (IE8)...)
Message import was succesfull is displayed afterwards.(show me (IE6)...)(show me (IE8)...)
2.2 Firefox
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Please download certificate from followning link by clicking ot it:
http://www.chare.cz/docs/certificates/ca.crt
Check option "Trust this CA to identify web sites" when dialog "Downloading certificate" is displayed and click on button "OK" (show me ...).
2.3 Chrome (Linux)
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Please download certificate from
followning link by clicking ot it:
http://www.chare.cz/docs/certificates/ca.crt
Open browser settings (Menu->Settings, scroll to the bottom and select
"Advanced settings" or enter the url chrome://chrome/settings/certificates)
Select tab Authorities and click button Import (show me ...).
Find the downloaded certificate in the open file dialog. Check all the options in the dialog
with trust settings and click ok (show me ...
).
2.4 Chrome (Windows)
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Please download certificate from
followning link by clicking ot it:
http://www.chare.cz/docs/certificates/ca.crt
Double click on the downloaded file.
Click on button "Install Certificate" after dialog with title "Certificate" is displayed
(show me...).
Click on button "Next" after dialog with title "Welcome to the certificate manager import wizard" is
displayed
(show me ...).
Keep default selection "Automatically select the certificate store based on type of certificate" and click on button "Next" after dialog with title "Select a certificate store" is displayed.
(show me ...).
Click on button "Finish" after dialog with title "Compliting Certificate manager import wizard" is displayed.
(show me ...).
Click on button "Yes" to answer question "Do you want to ADD the following certificate to the Root Store ?"
(show me ...).
Message import was succesfull is displayed afterwards.
(show me ...).