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I removed the key as even a partial private key leak can compromise your security, but it looked like a normal PEM encoded RSA key to me, dunno why cpanel would reject it...

Please show the dates of these files: [image] pboulton: It produced this output: 4 files: dataperceptions.co.uk-chain.pem dataperceptions.co.uk-chain-only.pem dataperceptions.co.uk-crt.pem dataperceptions.co.uk-key.pem

what file you used as certficificate? Id try -crt file as test, while it would be result site not provide intermediate certficiate but would bypass problem if cpanel and win-acme uses different cert order in chain file. @WouterTinus : a user of your client insist cpanel refused keyfile as invalid …

I can imagine one of two things going on: win-acme used a slightly odd 3072 bit key size, you could try changing that to 2048 or 4096 bit. win-acme offers users the option to protect the private key PEM with a passphrase, which some but not many certificate consuming applications support. If that …

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Generated pem files but cPanel Private Key (KEY) says "Invalid"

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Generated pem files but cPanel Private Key (KEY) says "Invalid"

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