Clarification of SSL terms please?
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Clarification of SSL terms please?



These three lines confuse me:

  SSLCertificateKeyFile /www/conf/secure1.mycorp.com.key
  SSLCertificateFile /www/conf/secure1.mycorp.com.cert
  SSLCACertificateFile /www/certs/CA.cert

Where do these three files come from?

Is the answer different if you've gone and gotten Verisigned?

I've done 'make certificate', but I'm not sure which file goes where,
nor do I know how to encrypt the certificate file so that it requires
a password to start the web server.

Also, I discovered that 'https://secure1.mycorp.com' works, while
'https://localhost' doesn't, giving an 'Invalid method in request' error,
followed by a few random bytes.

Is this a feature or a bug?  :-)
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Charles Howes -- chowes@ics.bc.ca