Hi Any one give me a clue what I'm doing wrong ? I've done a two day web search on this and nothing is working... Debian Squeeze Apache server....
https://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/ trying to create a certificate in... /etc/apache2/ssl ... with.... openssl req -x509 -days 1825 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout hostkey.key - nodes -out hostcert.pem After doing this I copy hostcert.pm into CA Cert and get the message.... " CommonName field was blank. This is usually caused by entering your own name when openssl prompt's you for 'YOUR NAME', or if you try to issue certificates for domains you haven't already verified, as such this process can't continue " I've done 'rm hostcert.pem and hostkey.key' an endless number of times and run the openssl command again. I get the same message every time. Is there an X509 certificate somewhere on the machine that needs to be removed as well ? So, far I've tried ..... sleepypenguin sleepypenguin.homelinux.org richard Richard Ibbotson as the common names. None of these work. Tried to have a chat to Marc Balmer (OpenBSD consultant) about this who said that the documentation might provide an answer. Nothing in there. All I can see for a common name is "Internet Widgits Pty Ltd" which is not what I entered on the command line. I think I'll go and head butt a wall instead ;) Lot easier than doing this :) -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
