Using Apache to serve PKCS

Web servers are often used to provide PKCS#12 formatted certificates for laptops and phones. Especially on phones, this saves a lot of awkward typing by the user. To ensure that Android phones don't download the .p12 files as text files which it cannot import, it is important to serve the .p12 files with the correct MIME type. For Apache, add the following line to the configuration:

AddType application/x-pkcs12 .p12 .pfx

Note that iOS (Iphones etc) ignore the CA certificate within the PKCS#12 file, so you must provide the cacert.pem file separately.