Re: Problems with SSL accessw through a web browser

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 05:11:26PM -0800, ian douglas wrote:
>  akonstam(a)trinity.edu wrote:
>  >However, when I try access to imaps through a web server using a
>  >https:// web address the results are baffling.
>  >Anyone have information on this they are willing to share?
>  
>  /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf will tell you where the certificate needs to be. 
First I
appreciate people trying to help me. Looking in the ssl.conf file told
me something I did not know, that https uses port 443 not port 993 for imaps.
I also knew where the certificate files  should be but they were not working
for me so I hoped to get other ideas.
>  
>  To generate a new one, try this:
>  
>  cd /etc/httpd/conf/
>  make server.crt 
A minor point to run make server.crt
you must be in directory: /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt
>  
>  One of the options you'll enter is the hostname of the machine the cert 
>  is for.
>  
>  Also ... if you enter a password when generating the key file, you'll 
>  need to type that password in every time you restart apache (ie: remove 
>  apache's logs from logrotate if you have it installed, otherwise Apache 
>  will shut down every Sunday night), and you'll need to modify the 
>  ssl.conf file to point at the new .crt and .key files you just made.
>  
>  Welcome to SSL and secure web browsing.
>  
>  -id 
I also had the annoying experience when I entered all the keys I had to enter
a
passphrase before starting or restarting httpd.
OK, but all this does not work. I configure the server essentially as
indicated above and when I access the server using https I get back a generic
certificate that has no relationship to the one I configured. And login access
is not presented to me even when I say I will accept the faulty certificate.
And so my question remains. How does one do this correctly?
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Aaron Konstam
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