Hi p_gurav, they did not show any relevant information when we looked at them, which is one of the reasons I was perplexed. However, I did manage to stumble upon the answer in a random .conf webinar.
There is a line that needs added to web.conf that is not in the splunk documentation. When you switch to third party certificates, the http port has to be specified- using self signed certificates does not present this error for some reason.
In web.conf, under server.cert, I put httpport = 8000, and the server restarted with no issues, cert and all good to go.
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