> I installed OPENSA on my Windows 2000 server, and I went to
> generate a CSR
> request. It told me that it could not find the config file openssl.cnf. I
> searched my whole drive and it wasnt to be found. I went to the openssl
> site and after about 2 hours of looking through that site I found an
> example of this file. So I copy /pasted it into a file and ran
> the command
> to generate the CSR. I submitted it to directnic (my registrar and vendor
> of SSL certs. It kept telling me that things were missing from my CSR
> request. (like State, and then Organization). After much searching on the
> web I found another site which had a far more elaborate file, and
> I gleaned
> enough from it to get the CSR request to finally work through directnic,
> but I am wondering if I got everything.
>
> I dont get why the file was not installed on my machine with opensa, and
> why the example file on the openssl site was missing stuff. Havent people
> (like me, ie new to Apache) been required to do this same thing??
Did you follow OPENSA's instructions for generating a CSR? If it didn't
come with any, talk to the OPENSA folks about why not. If the instructions
led you astray, again talk to them. As for why the OPENSA installation
didn't install an 'openssl.cnf' file, that would also be a question for the
OPENSA folks. My guess (and this is only a guess) would be that they didn't
intend their installation to be a full install of openssl for you to use
directly.
You installed OPENSA and then tried to follow the OpenSSL instructions.
That's likely why things didn't work. The OpenSSL instructions assume a
default OpenSSL installation.
DS
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