OpensSSL Server Certificates

Craig White craigwhite@azapple.com
Sun, 7 Jan 2001 11:04:06 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
> White
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 12:34 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: OpensSSL Server Certificates
> 
> 
> I have been rolling my eyes over the man pages for 'req' 
> 'openssl' and 'ssl'
> and haven't done much better with www.openssl.org so perhaps someone can
> point me in the right direction.
> 
> I want to create a self-signed certificate for my apache based web server
> with mod_ssl installed and apparently working if you call certificates
> signed as SomeOrganization Somewhere and localhost and localdomain a
> presentable certificate. I can't believe it is that hard to do but it is
> escaping me. Can anyone point me to a instruction page that 
> someone from the
> lower 98% can understand?
> 
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there is hope for the less learned of us, I actually succeeded - Yeah!

there is a wealth of info at Redhat's web site...I found this:

<http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-7-Manual/ref-guide/>

thought I would share this with you all.

Craig