Created on
10-08-2025
05:34 AM
Edited on
10-08-2025
05:36 AM
By
Anthony_E
This article describes the issue encountered while trying to create a user certificate on the FortiAuthenticator and how to resolve it.
FortiAuthenticator.
The reason for receiving the error 'cdp_dns_domain_url' is a digit or an invalid character in the top-level domain (TLD) of the
FortiAuthenticator's FQDN. Basically, if the TLD consists of any digit or invalid character, as shown below, it will give that error while trying to create a user certificate.
The following error will be received when trying to create a user certificate via 'Certificate Management -> End Entities -> Users':
To be able to create a user certificate, it is necessary to remove that digit or invalid character from the FQDN.
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