RE: Re: Importing Self-signed CA into Netscape Browser

2001-08-22 Thread Alex Pircher
Have you created your CA-Certificate with the steps in http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_faq.html#ToC29 ? Then you have the certificate in the right format. I don't know if it works under Linux/Unix if you call a certificate from a file-URL (in Windump it doesn't), try to request it via http

newbie question about SSL certificates and hostname

2001-08-22 Thread Kory Hamzeh
Please let me know if this question is not appropriate for this forum. This is the first system I'm configuring with SSL, and I am looking for recommendations on how to do this. I've already configured apache and know how to generate a CSR. We basically have an old web site that is pretty old

Re: newbie question about SSL certificates and hostname

2001-08-22 Thread Mads Toftum
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:57:12AM -0700, Kory Hamzeh wrote: Meanwhile, we're bringing up a new site on a new machine that is going to be running SSL. I'll call this machine store.domain.com. Once we get store.domain.com fully functional, we'll bring down www.domain.com and make

Re: newbie question about SSL certificates and hostname....Related question

2001-08-22 Thread Rajidhar Etta
Hi all, We are building new website and the site will server both SSL and nonSSL pages. We have two webservers and we have a an hardware load balancer to route the traffic to one of the web server. The site is www.xyz.com, and the two web server's hostnames are say A and B. Now, I am wondering on

Re: newbie question about SSL certificates and hostname

2001-08-22 Thread Steve Brazill
As long as the 'name' that the client (browser) used to access the website, matches the 'name' on the certificate AND the servername for that 'virtual' (or 'real') host, it will work If the certificate has the name store.domain.com embedded in it, then the Apache 'server' will have to have

Re: newbie question about SSL certificates and hostname....Related question

2001-08-22 Thread Steve Brazill
The Common Name that you use to 'build' the certificate must match the ServerName that the webserver is 'projecting'. You can have many ServerName entries in an Apache configuration if you're running 'virtual hosts'... (but you'd need a different set of certs for each name). SO, if you built

RE: newbie question about SSL certificates and hostname

2001-08-22 Thread Kory Hamzeh
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Brazill As long as the 'name' that the client (browser) used to access the website, matches the 'name' on the certificate AND the servername for that 'virtual' (or 'real') host, it will

Apache and mod_ssl

2001-08-22 Thread Janakiraman Mohanaraman
Hi: I am using mod_ssl and openssl in Linux platform for the first time. I was unable to locate documentation regarding the following and am not sure if this is do-able or not. I was trying to setup a directory on my server in such a way that all URL calls to that directory use SSL. Even if

Re: Apache and mod_ssl

2001-08-22 Thread ___cliff rayman___
if u have compiled in mod_rewrite, i believe the code below will do what you want. i have not tested it here however. check out the following documentation. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/rewriteguide.html - snip RewriteEngine

Re: newbie question about SSL certificates and hostname

2001-08-22 Thread Steve Brazill
Yes, to avoid ANY errors popping up in the 'users' face, all 3 should match... If the URL name they use to get to the site is different, they'll get the The site your visiting does not match the name you used error message. If the ServerName setting and the 'common name' in the certificate

Re: Apache and mod_ssl

2001-08-22 Thread Janakiraman Mohanaraman
Thanks for your prompt response! MJ. At 04:48 PM 8/22/2001 -0700, you wrote: if u have compiled in mod_rewrite, i believe the code below will do what you want. i have not tested it here however. check out the following documentation. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Re: Apache and mod_ssl

2001-08-22 Thread ___cliff rayman___
Janakiraman Mohanaraman wrote: At 04:48 PM 8/22/2001 -0700, you wrote: if u have compiled in mod_rewrite, i believe the code below will do what you want. i have not tested it here however. check out the following documentation. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html