Ssl – Certificate Chain with AWS ELB & GoDaddy Certs

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I'm trying to setup SSL on my AWS ELB, but I am thus far unable to figure out what goes into the "Certificate Chain" field. I receive the following error:

Unable to validate certificate chain. The certificate chain must start
with the immediate signing certificate, followed by any intermediaries
in order. The index within the chain of the invalid certificate is: -1

I have my private key & certificate in PEM format and uploaded. If I use these without the "optional" chain, it works untrusted. I have been poking around, trying to find an answer on what to put into the field, and this answer suggests downloading the gd_bundle-g2.crt – I have done this and converted it into PEM by running openssl x509 -inform PEM -in gd_bundle-g2.crt but the error remains. When I downloaded my certificate from GoDaddy, I was given a ZIP with my SSL certificate along with gdig2.crt and gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt. I have tried using these files in various combinations, and alone, but again, nothing.

What certificates go into the Certificate Chain, in what order, and in what format?

Best Answer

So the problem was several mistakes along the way for me. First, I took the -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- section from the PEM generated from my keytool keystore. Second, I was trying to convert the gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt file - it already contained exactly what I needed to use.

To start from the beginning - I used Digicert's Java Keytool to generate my commands to get my keystore and CSR using keytool. From there, I got a wildcard SSL certificate through GoDaddy and downloaded my certificate which was in a ZIP file along with gdig.crt and gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt. After this, I follwed to steps to get the private key from my keystore following this StackOverflow answer. However, the foo.pem file from this command required one more command, openssl rsa -in foo.pem -out foo.rsa to get the final form accepted by the AWS panel.

Now to fill in the SSL form on AWS:

  • Private Key: The contents of the foo.rsa file from the previous step.
  • Public Key Certificate: The contents of the <your_cert>.crt file provided by GoDaddy
  • Certificate Chain: The contents of the gd_bundle-g2-g1.crt file provided by GoDaddy

This has given me a successful SSL certificate setup for my AWS ELB, with the proper certificate path, giving me a trusted certificate.

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