[BlueOnyx:18597] Re: SSL 5208R

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

On 10/27/2015 7:55 PM, Don Teague wrote:
> Never thought it would be a problem to create the CSR on another
> machine, but I guess it is.

Oh yeah, that's kind of a different story.  It *can* be done, and I have 
done it, and in certain limited applications that's the right answer. 
But it takes some manual hokey-pokey at the CLI and, from a 
philosophical standpoint, kind of violates the whole trust thing that 
you're getting a certificate to validate in the first place.  <shrug> 
As I said, there are some limited applications where it makes good 
sense, but then what you'd need to do is get the whole thing working on 
server #1, then copy the whole shootin' match over to server #2. 
Working half here and half there complicates things beyond reason.

> I re-created the CSR from the GUI, had the cert re-issued, and after
> renaming to .txt, was able to get it to take the cert.

Excellent!   Glad it's working as advertised!

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