Can someone help me as to where I’m going wrong with my ssl certificates
if you have the common way from using certs for hass, you can leave away the lines with cert-verify and cert-path
the common way?
common is what most people use and not specific for your environment 
if you found out how to do it through the homeassistant website and forum then its probably the most common way.
it seems like you want answers fast and have little patience. i advice you to use the discord chat from homeassistant. there are more people there to help.