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Convert SSL cert to TXT

I have a CSR file and got the certificate from our internal CA for an appliance. How do I convert this certificate as a .txt file with BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE so I can paste this text to an appliance to install the cert?

David Favor

Provide all your steps, as your cert generation step has almost surely generated a .cert or .fullchain file which you'll use.

Tip: Independent of what tool you use + file extensions your tool generates (they all seems to produces slightly different extensions), all the produced files are human readable text.

For example, https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29164536/SSL-Solution-for-Multi-Domain-Multi-Host.html discusses using LetsEncrypt to generate certs.

When finished, you'll have a list of cert files.

For example, here are the LetsEncrypt generated files. Note there's no .csr file as LetsEncrypt automatically generates this file, so you never see a .csr file... unless you really dig for it...

lxd: net14-dns-ns11 # lsd -l /etc/letsencrypt/live/davidfavor.com/*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 682 Jul  3  2018 /etc/letsencrypt/live/davidfavor.com/README
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  39 Dec 25 19:04 /etc/letsencrypt/live/davidfavor.com/cert.pem -> ../../archive/davidfavor.com/cert10.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  40 Dec 25 19:04 /etc/letsencrypt/live/davidfavor.com/chain.pem -> ../../archive/davidfavor.com/chain10.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  44 Dec 25 19:04 /etc/letsencrypt/live/davidfavor.com/fullchain.pem -> ../../archive/davidfavor.com/fullchain10.pem
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  42 Dec 25 19:04 /etc/letsencrypt/live/davidfavor.com/privkey.pem -> ../../archive/davidfavor.com/privkey10.pem

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All these files have .pem extensions + the files are actually all human readable, plain text files... albeit, containing long strings of text...

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sara2000

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The cert was issued by internal CA. I was able to convert it to pem file using openssl.