How to convert pem into key

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I already have purchased SSL certificate and i have received certificate and a  pem file as a private key  from the supplier  now i need to convert this  pem key into  key for bitnami Redmine Apache web server in order to make it work   How do I go about doing this what what program or commands to do this   I am a newbie in terms of using Openssl etc to do this   Any advice would be much appreciated   Thank you

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I assume you want the DER encoded version of your PEM private key  openssl rsa -outform der -in private pem -out private key

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CA s don t ask for your private keys  They only asks for CSR to issue a certificate for you  If they have your private key  it s possible that your SSL certificate will be compromised and end up being revoked  Your  key file is generated during CSR generation and  most probably  it s somewhere on your PC where you generated the CSR  That s why private key is called  quot Private quot  - because nobody can have that file except you

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just as a  crt file is in  pem format  a  key file is also stored in  pem format   Assuming that the cert is the only thing in the  crt file  there may be root certs in there   you can just change the name to  pem   The same goes for a  key file   Which means of course that you can rename the  pem file to  key   Which makes gtrig s answer the correct one   I just thought I d explain why

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openssl x509 -outform der -in your-cert pem -out your-cert crt

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If you re looking for a file to use in httpd-ssl conf as a value for SSLCertificateKeyFile  a PEM file should work just fine   See this SO question answer for more details on the SSL options in that file   Why is SSLCertificateKeyFile needed for Apache

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openssl rsa -in privkey pem -out private key does the job

[ssl] How to convert .pem into .key?

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