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Generating a self signed wildcard ssl certificate

Hi

I generated KEY and CSR according to instructions from the following wiki thread: http://www.hostingrails.com/forums/wiki_thread/44

I then generated the CRT following instruction from this forum thread:http://www.hostingrails.com/forums/everything_else_thread/779

Now I just want to be sure that I proceeded correctly.  Here are the commands that I used:

username@hostname [~/ssl]# openssl genrsa -out *.mydomain.com.key 1024
username@hostname [~/ssl]# openssl req -new -key *.mydomain.com.key -out *.mydomain.com.csr
username@hostname [~/ssl]# openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey *.mydomain.com.key -out *.mydomain.com.crt

The purpose of all this: I want to secure a domain and all it's future subdomains with one certificate.

My question is did I proceed correctly (using "*.mydomain.com" format) and if so could you please install it for me (those are the only files in my /ssl folder).

Thanks in advance.


Pascal

2008-04-26 03:43 PM

Hi - There is no much difference in the process of creating a wild card SSL certificate. You need to make sure that you enter *.domain.com for the "Common Name" while creating it. And to install it - please post a ticket to the support team. Thank you

2008-04-26 04:20 PM

HostingRails Support
I will do just that.  Thanks.

Pascal

2008-04-26 05:32 PM


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