OpenSSL: PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE [closed]

Since you are on Windows, make sure that your certificate in Windows "compatible", most importantly that it doesn't have ^M in the end of each line
If you open it it will look like this:
```
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----^MMIIDITCCAoqgAwIBAgIQL9+89q6RUm0PmqPfQDQ+mjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADBM^M
```
To solve "this" open it with Write or Notepad++ and have it convert it to Windows "style"
Try to run openssl x509 -text -inform DER -in server_cert.pem and see what the output is, it is unlikely that a private/secret key would be untrusted, trust only is needed if you exported the key from a keystore, did you?

Another possible cause of this is trying to use the ;x509; module on something that is not X.509.

The server certificate is X.509 format, but the private key is RSA.

So:

openssl rsa -noout -text -in privkey.pemopenssl x509 -noout -text -in servercert.pem

windows openssl certificate trusted

My mistake was simply using the CSR file instead of the CERT file.

CodeHunter