Tuesday, April 20, 2010

GoDaddy SSL .crt File Won't Uncompress/unzip in Windows 2003

I ran into a problem today with Windows 2003 not wanting to uncompress or unzip all the required ssl certificate files from the GoDaddy certificate zip file you download from their certificate manager. The problem appears to be that post SP1 in 2003, the operating system blocks certain files from being uncompressed when they are downloaded from the internet. In this case, it would unzip the .p7b file, but not the .crt file in the archive. My solution:

  1. Right mouse click the zip file
  2. Choose "Properties"
  3. In the general tab, click the button "Unblock"
Now you should be able to uncompress all the files in the zip archive.

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