On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 03:28:48PM -0400, Keith Kwiatek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I ran through the steps to create and self sign a cert....
>
> When I try to install it says:
> "alert bad certficate [Hint:Subject CN in certificate not server name!?]"
>
> What does this mean?
>
It means "CN in certificate not server name" - usually clients (ie. web brosers)
will compare Common Name from the server certificate subject with the name of
the server that they're connecting to. The alert from mod_ssl is simply telling
you that something isn't right - perhaps you've type the wrong server name.
You could try it out with a standard www browser to see if it gets the same
error, and you could also try: openssl x509 -in server.crt -noout -text
vh
Mads Toftum
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