[BlueOnyx:06289] Re: help with wild card SSL cert install

Gerald Waugh gwaugh at frontstreetnetworks.com
Mon Jan 10 17:58:54 -05 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 13:40 -0900, Jim Dory wrote:
> 
> On 1/10/2011 9:48 AM, Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc wrote:
> > Jim
> >
> >  From the comand line, for the siteadmin ssl, the method I use  is
> >
> > cd /etc/admserv
> > openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key -nodes -out request
> > Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key
> 
> Ken,
> Many thanks for the tutorial! Very great help.  Last year I had Gerald 
> offer some good help and found this link:
> http://fsn.raqware.com/SSL/bundled-certs
> I had trouble with that last year and only had success by using GUI to 
> generate the request.
> 
> I do still  have a bit of confusion though. This site, 
> webmail.nomealaska.org, is a vhost of the server svr2.nomecity.org which 
> are sharing a single IP address. I'm wanting this mainly for webmail 
> users, so it will be for the webmail.nomealaska.org site. So I think I 
> want to install the certs in /home/.sites/xxx/siteX/certs . Hopefully 
> this will give users an https for checking webmail. (I see your 
> instructions are for /etc/admsrv/).
> 
> Hopefully users outside our LAN will be able to log in via 
> webmail.nomealaska.org/login to change various settings only available 
> there like vacation settins, though maybe it isn't that important - 
> something they should do in the LAN.
> 
> I am about ready to give this a try - thanks again,
> J

the fsn URL above was when I did BlueQuartz cert install/
Last I heard BlueOnyx was fixed and generates a proper cert and will
import certificates, maybe Taco or Michael will respond

Gerald




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