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October 28, 2025

Technical Tip: Users facing issue when accessing HTTPS websites, after migrating from one FortiGate to another FortiGate

  • October 28, 2025
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Description

This article describes that users are facing issues when accessing HTTPS websites after migrating from one FortiGate to another FortiGate when Deep Inspection is in use.

Scope FortiGate.
Solution

When the configuration is migrated from one FortiGate to another, the default certificates will not get carried over. 

For example, the built-in 'Fortinet_CA_SSL'  cert, which is the default for the Deep Inspection profiles, will always be the one included or generated by the device itself. 

 

If the old CA certificate was imported onto a user's device for Deep Inspection, the new certificate will no longer match, and they will get a certificate error when visiting an HTTPS web page:

 

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To resolve this, navigate to the Deep Inspection profile in use and re-import the CA cert onto each user's device:

 

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Specific steps for this can be seen here:

Technical Tip: How to enable deep inspection and import a certificate in the browser

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