Hi i am trying to generate a working set of certs for an Apachessl server using openssl 0.9.3a .. everything seems to generate okay , but when installing the crts in a secure server it hangs on start. with this error message [Tue Aug 3 12:02:52 1999] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Tue Aug 3 12:02:55 1999] [notice] Apache/1.3.6 configured -- resuming normal operations [Tue Aug 3 12:03:17 1999] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake failed (client 203.38.186.68, server www.tiamco.com:443) (OpenSSL library error follows) [Tue Aug 3 12:03:17 1999] [error] OpenSSL: error:14094412:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert bad certificate [Hint: Subject CN in certificate not server name!?] the certs were generated without any errors yes i did use www.tiamco.com as the CN ..... and the default certs work ... Any clues David KonectaNet Internet provider. Serving the northeast. http://www.konectanet.com.au email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]