On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 02:28 -0800, M E Fieu wrote: > Hi.. I tried to enable SSL / create a SSL Cert in my Fedora 3 > > I used the following to create server key > > openssl genrsa -des3 4096 >/etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key > > then I make your a self signet cerificte with > > openssl req -new -x509 -key /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key -out > > /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt -days 365 -utf8 > > and then I ensure the following entries is in my ssl.conf > SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt > SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key > > and restart my apache, when I surf to https://mywebsite , it state page not found. > http://mywebsite is ok. and when I telnet port 443 to that server, it failed too. > > The error_log show > [Wed Dec 28 16:08:58 2005] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK > [Wed Dec 28 16:08:58 2005] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable > [Wed Dec 28 16:08:58 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.53 (Fedora) configured -- resuming normal > operations > [Wed Dec 28 17:59:16 2005] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > [Wed Dec 28 17:59:17 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) > [Wed Dec 28 17:59:17 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... > [Wed Dec 28 17:59:17 2005] [notice] Digest: done > > I also tried to create a CSR to submit to my windows domain Root CA to sign it > http://windowsCA/certsrv/ Can anyone tell me whether windows domain CA and sign Linux CSR? > > I used the following command to create CSR of my Linux box > openssl req -new -key /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key -out /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.csr > > and use the server.csr content to http://windowsCA/certsrv/ and the windows CA can sign it and > return as certnew.cer. It rename it as server.crt and move it to my linux box's > /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt and restart the apache. Not sure whether it is right , but I > also can telnet 443 to my linux box and error message is the same as above ---- this is how I do it. cd /usr/share/ssl/certs openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 2048 openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024 #### generate web server certificate #### openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key.unsecure openssl req -config /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf -new -x509 -days 3650 \ -key server.key.unsecure -out server.crt rm -fr /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt cp server.crt /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/ rm -fr /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key cp server.key.unsecure /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key YMMV Craig