"strayed?" - makes me sound like a lost sheep! ;-)
Cheers for the info, Tim. Could you mail me the original openssl.cnf so
that I could have a play with trying to get it to work?
Thanks in advance,
--
Ben Kennish
e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
w: www.fubra.com
Tim Sellar wrote:
>
> Ben, you have strayed innocently into new territory... Using VSD CA
> generated certificates in browsers is not something I have tried. The VSD CA
> is intended to produce certificates and keys for SSL authenticated
> communication between VSD servers and clients - in this situation they never
> come into contact with IE or Netscape. Having said that, it would obviously
> benficial to have the VSD CA producing certificates that can be easily used
> for HTTPS. You could even go the whole hog and use certifiate based
> authentication for Qpopper (supported on version 4). I hacked quite a bit
> out of the openssl.cnf supplied with freeVSD-1.4.8 (compare it to a standard
> distribution openssl.cnf to see) and probably removed something which
> Netscape would have liked. You need to identify which bits need to go back
> in...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Kennish
> > Sent: 31 May 2001 17:03
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: HTTPS & OpenSSL
> >
> >
> > I can't seem to set up HTTPS in of my test VS. I have compiled with the
> > --with-openssl option.
> >
> > I have created a certificate for my host server (CA) with vsd-genca
> > and one for my vs (vsone) using "vsd-ca_certadd vsone".
> >
> > But doing https://vsone.office.fubra/ doesn't seem to work (Network
> > Error : I/O error with nutscrape.) I've checked through the default
> > secure virtual host on the server and it seems OK. I don't get anything
> > in Apache's error logs although I do get a few weird looking symbols in
> > the access log!
> >
> > I've tried copying the .crt or .key files that are made on the host from
> > vsd-ca_certadd to where Apache is looking for them on the VS but to no
> > avail (same error.)
> >
> > netstat -nat shows that the VS is listening on both 443 and 8443 ports.
> >
> > Any ideas? Am I missing some vsdadm ca_certadd stuff?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > --
> > Ben Kennish
> >
> > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > w: www.fubra.com
