I need help getting SSL (https) working for a customer before I lose the
will to live..... Sorry for the length of this.

 

Using GSKKYMAN, and referring to sections 4.2.6.5 and 4.2.6.6 of "HTTP
Server Planning, Installing, and Using" I did the following:

-          created a CA database, created a CA certificate, made it the
default, exported it to a file

-          created a server key database, imported the CA certificate,
created a server certificate request (certificate with 2048-bit RSA key)

-          self-signed the server certificate, imported it to the server
key database, made it the default

So far so good. HTTPS requests work ok and the customer and I can see
the certificate.

 

But the customer wants to sign the certificate with their own CA
certificate. So I send them the server certificate request, and some
time later I get back 2 files, a .P7B file containing 3 certificates,
the first 2 I assume are their CA certificate chain, and the 3rd is the
signed key. I can import this P7B file and can see the 3 certificates if
I use the Manage Certificates option. They also send a .CER file which
is binary and unreadable but I can import it. This is presumably the
signed certificate in a different format.

 

But, HTTPS requests still pick up the original default key. If I use the
Manage keys option I can only see my original key, so I can't set the
newly imported stuff as default. I've tried deleting the original key,
and then get IMW6802E SSL Handshake failed: return code 12
(GSK_KEYFILE_BAD_LABEL) or IMW6802E SSL Handshake failed: return code 6
(Key label is not found. I've tried using SSLServerCert in the
httpd.conf to point to a particular certificate but that gives IMW6802E
SSL Handshake failed: return code 428 (Key entry does not contain a
private key). In httpd.conf I've tried SSLMODE ON and SSLMODE MIXED.

 

It doesn't help that I don't quite understand the difference between
keys and certificates but what am I missing? How can I pick up the
certificate signed by the customer?

 

Thanks

Paul

 

 

 



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