On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 23:02 +0800, howard chen wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Philip Wigg <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You would have generated a public key and a private key initially > > (they're a pair) because your public key is needed to generate your > > CSR (Certificate Signing Request). > > > > Thanks for your link. > > So it seems that now I missed the private key from the beginning. > > I want to ask, can this private key shared across multiple server and reused? > > So once I found this private key, I don't need to go through the > public key/private key generation, and CSR process. A Key/Certificate pair relates (generally) to a single website name; eg: www.example.com If you are hosting the same site on two machines, and load-balancing between the two, then yes; assuming your Certificate is licensed for two machines, you can use the same Key/Certificate pair on both machines. You would *not* create one Key for use with multiple CSR requests for different hostnames. Mark. -- Mark Watts BSc RHCE MBCS Senior Systems Engineer, Managed Services Manpower www.QinetiQ.com QinetiQ - Delivering customer-focused solutions GPG Key: http://www.linux-corner.info/mwatts.gpg
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