Hello,

It works.

Thanks.



markt-2 wrote:
> 
> On 17/11/2011 16:48, rosiere wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> Thanks for your hint.
>> 
>> I made a copy of my keystore. Then I changed alias:
>> my private key now uses the alias "mykey".
>> I changed our certificate's alias to "tomcat", by keytool's -changealias
>> command.
>> 
>> Now this is my certificate (the third one that differs from INTER and
>> ROOT)
>> Alias name: tomcat
>> 
>> Entry type : trustedCertEntry
>> 
>> Owner : CN=$myCN OU=Domain Control Validated - RapidSSL(R), OU=See
>> www.rapidssl.com/resources/cps (c)11, OU=$myOrganizationalUnit,
>> O=$myOrganization, C=FR, SERIALNUMBER=$mySerialNumber
>> Issuer : CN=RapidSSL CA, O="GeoTrust, Inc.", C=US
>> 
>> 
>> In my server.xml I changed keyAlias from "tomcat" to "mykey" and
>> referenced
>> the new keystore file.
>> 
>> However at last I still could not show GeoTrust or RapidSSL as
>> certificate
>> issuer when I browsed to Tomcat welcome page. The certificate returned to
>> my
>> web browser was still a self-signed one.
>> 
>> Do I have to rebuild my keystore from scratch and request another
>> certificate from our CA, just because of a mistake in my old alias?
> 
> No. Try the following.
> 
> 1. Take copies of everything.
> 
> 2. Delete everything from the keystore apart from the private key.
> 
> 3. Ensure the private key has the alias "tomcat".
> 
> 4. Import the CA cert and the intermediate  as you did before.
> 
> 5. Import your new cert *using the alias "tomcat"*. Yes I know this is
> the same as the private key. No, it isn't a mistake.
> 
> 6. Configure your server.xml to use the alias "tomcat".
> 
> Mark
> 
>> 
>> 
>> markt-2 wrote:
>>>
>>> On 17/11/2011 15:26, rosiere wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>>> My colleagues concluded that all the necessary certificates were
>>>> imported,
>>>> but none was actually used by Tomcat.
>>>
>>> Wrong.
>>>
>>> When you imported your new certificate, you should have specified
>>> "tomcat" as the alias rather than "$myAlias".
>>>
>>> I suggest you take some backups of your key stores in case you mess
>>> things up and then try again.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
>>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
> 
> 
> 

-- 
View this message in context: 
http://old.nabble.com/Certificate-issued-by-GeoTrust-Global-CA-is-not-appearing-at-client-browser%27s-side-tp32855051p32870249.html
Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org

Reply via email to