Re: [apache-ssl] Certificate name problems

[Wyman Eric Miles <wymanm@is.rice.edu>]

This one comes up from time to time.  The correct site name, which you
provided when answering the distinguished name questions while creating
the cert, is some regular expression which matches the base URL of the
site.

So, the common name (I believe) given in the cert creation process should
match the URL: www.hkust.se  for example.

Wyman


On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Magnus Stenman -- root/webmaster@hkust.se wrote:

> I made my own certificate both with make-test-certificate
> and with SSLeay's (0.8.1) CA.sh
> 
> When I connect to my Apache-SSL 1.2.6 server, Netscape (4.05 W95)
> complains like such:
> 
> "The certificate that the site 'www.my.url' has presented
> does not contain the correct site name." ...
> 
> The question is:
> Where do I specify the site name during certificate creation??
> 
> I canīt seem to get this to work....
> 
> TIA
> -- 
>      Magnus Stenman     http://www.hkust.se     mailto:stone@hkust.se
> 

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