IdentityServer4: Unable to load certificate, having trouble loading the certificate

Question

I'm unable to load the x509 certificate.

Issue: It can't find the certificate. I checked and it's right there! :(

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    public static X509Certificate2 Get()
    {
        var assembly = typeof(Certificate).GetTypeInfo().Assembly;
        var names = assembly.GetManifestResourceNames();

        /***********************************************************************************************
         *  Please note that here we are using a local certificate only for testing purposes. In a 
         *  real environment the certificate should be created and stored in a secure way.
         **********************************************************************************************/
        using (var stream = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Identity.API.Certificate.idsrv3test.pfx"))
        {
            return new X509Certificate2(ReadStream(stream), "idsrv3test");
        }
    }

    private static byte[] ReadStream(Stream input)
    {
        byte[] buffer = new byte[16 * 1024];
        using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
        {
            int read;
            while ((read = input.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0)
            {
                ms.Write(buffer, 0, read);
            }
            return ms.ToArray();
        }
    }

Reference https://github.com/dotnet-architecture/eShopOnContainers/blob/38ade408629a606bc63bb09ea1f4e54ca473e617/src/Services/Identity/Identity.API/Certificate/Certificate.cs

Answer 1

I am loading the certificate from Startup.cs with the following line of code

X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(Path.Combine(_env.ContentRootPath, "cetname.pfx"), "password");