Have you created your CA-Certificate with the steps in
http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html#ToC29 ?
Then you have the certificate in the right format.
I don't know if it works under Linux/Unix if you call a certificate from a file-URL
(in Windump it doesn't), try to request it via http
Thanks for taking the trouble to respond to my apparent thick-mindedness, Alex!
I pointed the URL to the actual test file containing the certificate: in this case
file:///opt/apache/conf/ssl.crt/ca.crt.
Then, I hit on the security icon and asked to import the certificate. It asks for a