[ILUG] auto generating ssl certs

Enda enda at unison.ie
Tue Jul 27 12:20:36 IST 2004


John P. Looney wrote:
> All I want is something that'll make the unsigned cert and the csr, for
> apache or IIS. You have to be a developer to make something so simple so
> complex...
>
> As was pointed out, it's a pair of openssl commands, with some simple PHP
> to hide their invocation. No webservers needed.

Apache is the easy case and that'll work fine (unless they've tightened up
the private key storage since I looked at it last), but you'll hit problems
with that approach on IIS unless you have a command line method to import
the private key into the keystore and associate it with the server, ditto
for importing the signed cert.

 -Enda.




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