On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 22:21 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > [Sun Jul 22 13:04:32 2007] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) > > `localhost.localdomain' does NOT match server name!? > > [Sun Jul 22 13:04:32 2007] [error] Unable to configure RSA server > > private key > > [Sun Jul 22 13:04:32 2007] [error] SSL Library Error: 185073780 > > error:0B080074:x509 certificate routines:X509_check_private_key:key > > values mismatch > > > > The ssl errors were present on the old system so I was not too worried > > about those. > > Your ServerName isn't the same as the one which is present in the > certificate. SSL does not really like that. And it is good to be > stricter about that. > > > I turned off selinux with out a change in symptoms. > > Yes, as that error clearly hasn't anything to do with SELinux. > > > Anyone's ideas would sure be appreciated !!! > > As that seems to be a selfsigned certificate: Create a new one with the > server's fqdn in the Common Name filed (www.example.com, for example). > > tinyca2 (which is available from the rpmforge repository) makes creation > of new certificates really easy. > > Also the "HOWTO" section on > <http://www.modssl.org/docs/2.8/ssl_howto.html> has some information. > > Cheers, > > Ralph Ralph, Thanks for the suggestion to use tinyca2.... great utility!!!!! The link was also excellent. Unfortunately, I am going to give up on a fix for the failure of httpd and do a repeat install. This is my 4th install of CentOS 5.0 and everything has worked perfectly before. I am sure it must be related to something I have done during my configuration setup, but I can not find the error for now. Back to the Salt mines!!! Greg