5.2 Acquiring a certificate

The following figure shows the procedure to acquire a certificate.

Figure 5-2 Acquiring the certificate

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Acquire a certificate file signed by the CA according to the procedure shown in the above figure, and then save the part of the certificate file that begins with -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and ends with -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- into a separate file (httpsd.pem in the standard httpsd.conf). After that, define the file in the SSLCertificateFile directive to use SSL.

Organization of this section
5.2.1 Creating a private key for the Web server (keygen command)
5.2.2 Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) (certutil reqgen command)
5.2.3 Displaying the contents of a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) (certutil req command)
5.2.4 Displaying certificate contents (certutil cert command)
5.2.5 Converting the certificate format (certutil cert command)
5.2.6 Creating a hash link (in UNIX) (certutil cert command)
5.2.7 Usage examples of the keygen and certutil commands