Google checkout has some exceptionally stringent requirements with regards to SSL which always seem to trip people up and involve lots of messing around getting the cert set up properly.
I have found a nice online cert checker which you can show to your hosting company (or whoever installed your cert) to show them that the cert isn’t set up properly.
You can find it here:
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If you have SSH access to your server you can run this command to check your SSL
more ssl checkers
http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html
http://sslchecker.com/
http://www.digicert.com/help/
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Hi, this was a very good article.
BTW. I just wanted to mention, that I’ve recently stumbled upon sslchecker.net and wanted to let your visitors know about this very useful resource.
This particular website provides a very comprehensive details for any online SSL certificate. Looking at the site stats – it seems to be very popular among webmins.
Site address is http://www.sslchecker.net and all you need to do is to enter a domain name (url/hostname) and it spills out all kinds of SSL related data.
Just wanted to share. Thanks again for writing this blog, very useful info.
thanks for the sites, i have had a couple of issues with some of the SSL sold to me i will have to start manually checking all them now
Thanks for publishing a useful article. For a detailed check of your SSL certificate you might want to also look at this tool:
http://certlogik.com/sslchecker/
This provides info on all certificate attributes, checks the trust chain, and also checks if the cert uses a blacklisted Debian key.