I have successfully generated my wildcard certificate however i am using it for an app which requires certificate,key and root parameters [Screen Shot 1401-01-16 at 11.36.59] however when i generated my certificate with lets encrypt i only got two parameters certificate and private key when i run …

fullchain.pem has at least three different certificates. Yours The intermediate (most commonly, it's called R3) A cross signed root certificate (most commonly, ISRG Root X1) The root certificate itself is not there. But it all depends on your app. What does that setting do? Is it used to validat…

it is used to tell it "trust this no matter what" the three different certificates in the fullchain.pem are the written in that order and where can i find the root certificate

that depends on what chain you told your acme client to use. If you are using the default chain (AKA "the long RSA chain"), the root certificate is DST Root X3 If you are using the short RSA chain, the root certificate is ISRG Root X1 (the self-signed one, not the cross signed one -- one key, two …

[image] Giuseppe C.: You can find them all on this page: But, depending on your OS and app, you probably have them already.

Hi @kweku , and welcome to the LE community forum :slight_smile: [image] kweku: Please correct me if i am wrong Root certs should never be sent by anyone [especially while providing a leaf cert that relies on that root]. Your O/S should have a way to keep the root cert list updated.

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