[CentOS-docs] Setting up an SSL secured Webserver

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 08/31/2008 07:11 PM, Mats Karlsson wrote:
> Will F. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Https
>> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the private keys get 
>> automatically generated and httpd gets configured for it (via 
>> conf.d/ssl.conf)?  I'm just not sure what's different doing it the 
>> way described in the document.
>>
>> Thanks, -will
>>   
>
> I agree with Will.
>
> The page should be changed to reflect how it's done in 5.x or forked 
> into two pages, "The 4.x way" and "The 5.x way".
>
    Am I missing something here? mod_ssl contains the exact same code in 
%post in both C4.6 and C5.2. And in both cases the generated [dummy] 
certificate leaves the system in a ready-to-be-used (although not really 
recommended) configuration.