Dividing CA certificate and installing SSL in Webdispatcher

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Introduction:

I personally tried installing the SSL certificate in the web dispatcher from the web administration page by following this - https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/SI/Managing+PSE+files+at+the+Web+Dispatcher

Despite following the steps described in this note - 2542858, I failed to fix the error mentioned in it

Hence tried importing the certificate from the OS level and got it fixed, here we are the details:

 

Environment:
SLES 15
WD 7.73

 

Prerequisite:

You have generated the CSR response and got the signed certificates from CA to import in web dispatcher

 

Steps:

Opening the received certificate looks like the below:

Here there are 2 parts of the certificate as shown above:

1. DigiCert - root certificate

2. RapidSSL RSA CA 2018 - intermediate certificate

Lets see how to generate these two as we need them while importing the SSL

 

Generating the root certificate:

To generate the root certificate, highlight the DigiCert, Click on view Certificate, Go to details and copy to file:

 

Proceed with the dialogue box by selecting the below option:

 

Input the certificate as root.cer(Digicert) and export it to be desired location

 

Generating the intermediate certificate:

Repeat the same steps by selecting the RapidSSL for generating the intermediate certificate and export it as intermediate.cer to the location where the root.cer was saved

 

Now we have all the certificates in place:

 

Importing the certificates into OS level:

Login to the OS level and copy the above generated certificates into the sec directory of the web dispatcher:

 

Set the secudir environment variable if not already set and execute the below command:

sapgenpse import_own_cert -p SAPSSLS.pse -c *****.cer -r root.cer -r intermediate.cer

The above command will import the signed CA response into the SAPSSLS.pse

Restart the Webdispatcher instance and access the Web dispatcher URL to view the secured certificate:

 

Conclusion:

Now the respective URL will have no red security errors and with clean valid SSL certificate