Now, i have configured it. It is very easy because the documentation has
some 3.6 documentation which was confusing.
Go to security on the server which you wish to install the certificate.
Create Database :
Cryptographic module : "Internal(software)"
Give a password and re-type again.
click "ok"
It will create a database for you. You should not create database for more
than one server then the cert7 and key3 files in alias directory in your
root will be corrupted.
Request a certificate:
1.Select the "new certificate"
2.CA Email Address : your mail-id
3.cryptographic module: "internal software"
4. Requestor name: your name
... the rest of the fields are obvious, except for common name
which is your fully qualified name for your server like
www.myserver.com, this should not have any port numbers, http, colons,
forward slashes,....etc.
5. Click "ok"
Server creates a Certificate request. starting with headers and
certificate request starting BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST and END CERTIFICATE
REQUEST.
I have take a 14-day trail certificate from verisign.
Just go thru the process at some step it will ask you to copy the
certificate request. Copy the certificate request starting from the starting
hyphen of BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST to ending hyphen of END CERTIFICATE
REQUEST and paste in it.
They will mail you a certificate within an hour.
Then go to install certificate.
Select "This Server".
Cryptographic module : "internal software"
key pair file password: password that you gave for database.
Message Text: copy and paste the certificate you got in mail.
Click "ok"
It will prompt to Add certificate , add it.
When you go to manage certificate you can see the certificate name as
"Server-Cert" and Type is "Own".
Now go to "Prefrences"
and enable encryption. The server should be running under a default port of
443, i think you can change it this. I havent checked this.
Now you can access the server for https requests.
To test it just do
https://www.myserver.com, if running on default port. If running under
different port give the port number.
Your server will be able to web server both http and https requests only
when you configure to different servers for http and https. If you have more
than three files
https-servername-domain-cert7.db,
https-servername-domain-key3.db,
secmod.db
Then try renaming the directory, create a empty directory and start from
creating the database. If you have any problems you can mail me.
Madhavi
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Wang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 10:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to configure NES4.0 to recieve https and http requests?
I also want to know. Anyone?
Madhavi Karanam wrote:
> I am using Netscape Enterprise Server4.0. I am trying to configure the
web
> server to recieve both http and https. The documentation says that i have
to
> create a certificate and install it. Can we get any sample certificate to
> test so that later on we would like to buy one? Does anyone has
information
> regarding this would be of great helf for me.
> Thanks in advance
> Madhavi
>
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