Why don't you read the SSLeay instructions first? If you want to make your
own certificate, you really need to know it well. That can be a starting
point. If you don't want to know the details of certificate, may be you
should consider getting a commercial one instead.
http://cognac.epfl.ch/SIC/SL/CA/
http://www.mikom.csir.co.za/SSLeay/
These two sites has the necessary stuff to get you started.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, November 12, 1998 1:35 PM
Subject: VERY new user...please help
>Hello Everyone.
>
>I am a very new user of Apache and I have a ton of questions. I have
>just started a new job and have been tasked with getting apache-ssl up
>and running on a machine. The OS is Linux Redhat 5.1 and I downloaded
>SSLeay-0.9.0b-3.i386.rpm and apache-mod_ssl-1.3.2-2.0.12-3.i386.rpm.
>
>I used the rpm -I command to get these two packages installed and I got
>no errors..with the exception of having to remove and old version of
>apache. This gave me a new directory (one of many) /home/httpd
>I made a directory called /home/www/open and /home/www/secure. In the
>open directory I placed all of the orginal httpd files. I have nothing
>but a test index.html file in the secure directory so far.
>
>I modified the cnf files located in /etc/httpd/conf to reflect this
>change and also set up two virtual hosts..one open and one secure. The
>secure site defaults to the open site right now but I guess that is
>because I don't have the ssl set up properly yet. I don't seem to have
>any other problems with that part.
>
>Now I have moved on to the certificate stuff. I have been trying to
>follow the documentation located at
>http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mod_ssl/docs
><http://www.engelschall.com/sw/mod_ssl/docs> to get through this part.
>I started with question 12 that says "OK, I've got my server installed
>and now want to create a real SSL server certificate for it. How do I
>do that?
>
>Was this the right place to start?
>
>Following the answer to this question I made the server.key, server.csr,
>ca.key and ca.crt. But where was I suppose to create these. When I try
>to sign the certificate I find that I had to specify the config file to
>use which was located in /etc/ssleay.cnf. In this file it had entries
>for certificate, serial, crl, private_key, .... And the directory
>structure included subdirectories named certs and private. I have a
>location that has these 2 subdirectories in it so I changed the dir to
>that location.... /var/ssl Now, where should I create the keys and
>ccsr and crt....stuff?
>
>Can someone please take pitty on this recent college grad and give me a
>hand with this. I know it will take a lot of time to help walk me
>through it but your help will be VERY appreciated.
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Salome Harrison
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