Converting the private certificate to the DER format

You need to convert your private certificate into a DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) format.

The DER format, which is one of the formats for X.509 certificates, provides a platform-independent method of encoding certificates for transmission between devices and applications. For these instructions, it is assumed that the certificate to be converted is the eneCert.pem certificate that you created with the enecerts utility and stored in the %ENDECA_CONF%\etc directory.

Use the openssl.exe program (in the %ENDECA_MDEX_ROOT%\bin directory) to convert the certificate. Assuming that you have opened a command prompt and have navigated to the %ENDECA_CONF%\etc directory, the conversion command is:

openssl x509 -inform PEM -outform DER -in eneCert.pem -out eneCert.der

The eneCert.der certificate will be later used in the controller.aspx file.