: Are Commercial SSL Certificates (key file, and certificate file) portable when migrating between a new and old Apache2 server? We have an SSL Certificate that's currently on our Apache2 server

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We have an SSL Certificate that's currently on our Apache2 server for transferring traffic over the https protocol.

We are migrating away from this server to at another data center with a different ip that will hold the same domain. The SSL certificate needs renewed soon, and so we were wondering if the SSL Certificate was transferable to the other server, or if we would have to purchase a new one because it's a new server. In the past it was purchased from GoDaddy; not certain if that's where we'll purchase the new one.

The certificate is made up of the following file types:

.crt - Certificate File (Public Key, given to every browser)
.csr - Certifcate Signing Request (Sent to the Certificate Authority)
.key - Key File (Private Key, don't give to anyone, and back it up!)

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Certificates are absolutely portable. Just add the Private Key + Certificate + CA/Intermediate Chain to the new server in the same way as the existing server and you shouldn't have any problem.

This also helps in multi-server setups, where multiple servers may host the same content and therefore use the same certificate.

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