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The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted error for Cert issued by internal CA.

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rmorrissey
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We have deployed a certificate created by an internal Windows CA on a tomcat web site. When we use IE to browse to the site the page loads without issue. When we use Firefox we get : This Connection is Untrusted and under technical details: site.name:port uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted. (Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer) Any idea why?

We have deployed a certificate created by an internal Windows CA on a tomcat web site. When we use IE to browse to the site the page loads without issue. When we use Firefox we get : This Connection is Untrusted and under technical details: site.name:port uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted. (Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer) Any idea why?

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christ1
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FF doesn't know about your internal Windows CA. It therefore treats the cert issued by your CA as untrusted.
Get a cert for your site from a CA which already is listed in the FF certificate store.

rmorrissey
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Is there way way to make FF aware of our internal Windows CA enterprise wide?

cor-el
cor-el
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You will have to export the certificate in IE and import the certificate in Firefox or otherwise install the certificate in Firefox.