Melanie Pfefer wrote: > Hi , > > I created the .pem file using keytool > > keytool -export -alias tomcat -rfc > tomcat.pem > > and then moved this file to apache directory and ran c_rehash /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl > > this created a link file cc5d41ae.0 -> tomcat.pem > > what are the missing steps to create the server.key and server.crt on apache using openssl? from the openssl howto (http://www.openssl.org/docs/HOWTO/) openssl genrsa -des3 -out privkey.pem 2048 will make a private key (privkey.pem) encrypted with a passphrase, if you dont' want the passphrase leave the '-des3' bit out to make a certificate: openssl req -new -x509 -key privkey.pem -out cacert.pem -days 1095 this will make a self-signed certificate using the previously created key. Davide -- I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see of it the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx