SSL Certificate by GeoTrust not working

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I have signed for an SSL Certificate (Quick SSL Premium) from Geotrust by my VPS provider (1&1). I, did exactly what it is indicated here, I added all of the directives at my subdomain's Virtual Host file, but the SSL Certificate seems to be untrusted. What are the possible reasons for that?

I run Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx with Apache2 and mod_ssl enabled

Best Answer

The possible reasons are:

  1. Client's clock set incorrectly.

  2. Client's browser does not have the CA set to be trusted.

  3. Certificate not correctly installed at the server or corresponding private key not set.

  4. Intermediate certificates required but not correctly installed at the server.

  5. Client is not trying to reach the site through a name that is listed in the certificate.

  6. Certificate was revoked or is corrupt.

If you share the URL, we can narrow the problem down immediately.