Adam Laurie wrote:
>
> John Sutton wrote:
> > 2) What is this strange business of generating a odd named soft link to a
> > key file:
> >
> > dd948bac.0 -> ../SSLconf/conf/httpsd.pem
> >
> > Is this necessary? desirable? why?
>
> Necessary? No.
>
> Desirable? Depends.
>
> The soft link allows the server to find the relevant CA cert, quickly.
> This is only an issue if you have a lot of certs. The bottom line is
> your server will function OK without it.
Not quite. If it needs to look up a CA, the link is required. However,
for a server cert, it doesn't need the CA.
Cheers,
Ben.
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