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ACE Management Server Administrator’s Manual
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Restore a Backup Copy of an SSL Certificate
Ifyouuploadaninvalidcertificatefile,theACEManagementServerSetupapplication
failswhenyouclickApplyandthenRestartandyoucannotrestarttheApacheservice.
Tofixthisproblem,restorethebackupcertificatefileforthecorrespondingcertificate.
To restore a backup copy of an SSL certificate
1 NavigatetotheACEManagementServerdirectorywherethe
backupisstored.
Thefilenamesusethefollowingformat:
<certificate_filename>.<date>-<time>
The<certificate_filename>valueisoneofthefollowing:
server.crtTheserverpubliccertificate
server.keyTheserverprivatekey
chain.crtThecertificatechain
The <date>portionofthefilenameisintheformatYYYYMMDD(year,month,
day).
The <time>portionofthefilenameisintheformatHHMMSS(hours,minutes,
seconds).
Forexample,afilenamemightbeserver.crt.20070216-095344.
2 Savethefileinthecorrectlocationasssl/<filename>.crt and restartthe
Apache
servermanually.
See“VerifyThattheApacheServiceIsStartedorRestarted”onpage 31.
3StarttheACEManagementServerSetupapplicationandusetheCustomSSL
Certificatestabtouploadthebackupcopy.
“StartandConfigureACEManagementServeronpage 33.