{"id":34,"date":"2009-01-21T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T15:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/?p=34"},"modified":"2012-04-24T14:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T19:08:52","slug":"godaddy-firefox-error-sec_error_unknown_issuer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy FireFox Error: sec_error_unknown_issuer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently worked with an install of Kerio Mail Server and I installed an SSL certificate issued by GoDaddy.\u00a0 The install went okay; following the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.kerio.com\/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&amp;_a=viewarticle&amp;kbarticleid=73&amp;nav=0,1,37\" target=\"_blank\">Kerio instructions<\/a> and using the Internet Explorer browser worked fine.\u00a0 My problem was with Firefox.\u00a0 I kept getting the following error:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;sec_error_unknown issuer&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This error means that Firefox was not recognizing GoDaddy as a valid certificate issuer.\u00a0 In short, you may come across this problem if\u00a0 the <a title=\"GoDaddy Intermediate Certificate\" href=\"https:\/\/certs.godaddy.com\/Repository.go\">GoDaddy Intermediate Certificate<\/a> is not\u00a0 installed on your server in addition to the SSL certificate you purchased.\u00a0 The Intermediate Certificate is available for free download at GoDaddy. \u00a0 It is a universal certificate and it is not custom made for each user.\u00a0 When using the Intermediate Certificate, Firefox goes to your site for your SSL certificate, sees that it does not recognize GoDaddy, asks your server who GoDaddy is, and is provided with the Intermediate Certificate to complete the authorization request.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of installing it on Kerio Mail Server, you need to download the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/certs.godaddy.com\/Repository.go\">Go Daddy Secure Server Certificate (Intermediate Certificate)<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 On Linux-based systems, place the certificate in <em class=\"moz-txt-slash\">opt\/kerio\/mailserver\/sslca<span class=\"moz-txt-tag\">. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"moz-txt-slash\"><span class=\"moz-txt-tag\">If <\/span><\/span><em class=\"moz-txt-slash\"><\/em><span class=\"moz-txt-slash\"><span class=\"moz-txt-tag\">you browse to that directory, you will see that Kerio Mail Server ships with the VeriSign, RSA and Thawte Intermediate certificates, but not GoDaddy (or Comodo , or others).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently worked with an install of Kerio Mail Server and I installed an SSL certificate issued by Godaddy.  The install went okay, following the Kerio instructions and Internet Explorer worked fine.  My problem was with Firefox.  I kept getting the error &#8220;sec_error_unknown issuer&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vodasys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}