Reconfiguring the Middleware Server with a renewed SSL/TLS wildcard certificate consistently fails with 'Unable to initialize SSL environment' and a client handshake error, regardless of which certificate file format (.pem, .crt, .pfx, .p12) is tried — what's one thing worth checking on the private key file itself?

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Open the private key file in a text editor that shows encoding (like Notepad++) and confirm it's saved as UTF-8 — a private key file saved in a different encoding is a known cause of exactly this class of SSL initialization/handshake failure during a Middleware Server certificate reconfiguration, even when the certificate chain itself is otherwise correctly assembled.

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