hello,

Earlier in the week we had a certificate expire.   This caused salesforce to stop communicating to a server.   This was se up a few years ago by someone who has since left the company.   I have attempted to create a CA signed certificate which was signed by our CA.   I then imported this into Salesforce and a cert downloaded from here.   But when this cert is imported into our server there is no private key present.

The expired cert has a private key and we get an error that the connection has be closed during hand shake.   Now I am not even sure that this is the correct type of cert to be using as I didn't see any evidence of the expired cert in our salesforce environment.   But I don't know that once a cert expires if it is deleted from the list at Sercurity Controls>Certificate and Key Management.

So my question is have I missed a step in the cert creation that will include a private key or is this the incorrect type of cert.   The call is being made in some apex code and in here I cannot see any reference to a cert.   I didn't expect to see anything here but I can't find and reference to the expired cert.

I have tried trawling documentation but nothing really helps.   It explaqins how to set up the cert but not anything about a private key etc.

Any assistance will be greatly received.

Thanks

Paul.