Certificates: How to make a .pem file from .crt and .key files

Computer Tips - Old - Certificates: How to make a .pem file from .crt and .key files

Date: 2012nov28 Updatee: 2026sep2 OS: Linux Q. Certificates: How to make a .pem file from .crt and .key files A. Easy, just concatenate them together:

cat SERVER.crt SERVER.nopass.key > SERVER.pem

They are all based64-encoded A good place to store it is:

/etc/pki/SERVER/SERVER.pem

Where SERVER is the name of your host.