[CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL
aurfalien
aurfalien at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 21:44:34 UTC 2012
On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> 2012/10/23 aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This topic is one that I am ignorant on and appreciate any guidance.
>>
>> My scenario;
>>
>> I have a wild card SSL installed on one of my CentOS boxes.
>>
>> As I understand it, this server was used as a sort of master when originally generating and receiving the wild card SSL cert (got the cert from GoDaddy BTW).
>>
>> So, now I must export some file(s) from that server so that I can import it/them to another server.
>>
>> Were do I begin?
>>
>> I did manage to generate a .cer from a pem belonging to my master server via;
>>
>> openssl x509 in ca.pem -inform PEM -out somefile.crt.cer -outform DER
>>
>> But I honestly do not under stand what I did here and have a feeling this is incomplete as aren't public and private key involved some how?
>>
>> I have my ca.csr (my request file), ca.key (my private key) and ca.pem (my public key) files in hand and ready. A backup has been made for testing.
>
> Looks like you are a bit lost in ssl-forest.
Ain't that the truth.
> just copy your privatekey
> and signed cert file to another box and configure apache. that is all
> that is needed.
Wow, so simple that its complicated :)
Many thanks.
- aurf
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