How to install a CA certificate on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7

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Issue

  • I purchased a SSL certicate and I have the CA bundle but when I try to run the following command it fails with the error below. How do I install the certificate on RHEL6?

    # openssl verify server.crt
server.crt: C = US, O = GeoTrust Inc., CN = GeoTrust Global CA
error 2 at 2 depth lookup:unable to get issuer certificate

# openssl verify -CAfile rapidSSL-ca.crt server.crt 
OK

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7
  • ca-certificates

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