I have got a nic signed certificate which I am trying to configure in my apache server without much luck :(. For this certificate to be generated, they needed CSR from my side. I created CSR using the following commands:
Created keystore file first using command -
keytool -genkey -alias generated -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -keystore generated.keystore
Generated CSR from this keystore using following command:
keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -alias generated -file generated.csr -keystore generated.keystore
My csr looked like:
-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
MIIC7jCCAdYCAQAwgagxCzAJBgNVBAYTAklOMRAwDgYDVQQIEwdNYW5pcHVyMQ8wDQYDVQQHEwZJ
bXBoYWwxNTAzBgNVBAoTLE1hbmlwdXIgU3RhdGUgSW5mb3JtYXRpb24gVGVjaG5vbG9neSBTb2Np
ZXR5MRkwFwYDVQQLDBBTUCBTU0RHICYgZUZvcm1zMSQwIgYDVQQDExt3d3cubWFuaXB1cnBvcnRh
......
......
bC5tbi5nb3YuaW4wggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggEKAoIBAQDRVxKwt/xCiAgGfuCs
ud5kcf+BKQURwKExLHUeUNQHpT1IMcx/is9anki+u3ijFbV1ei/ybgSRzFgesem+yTUutTYCgyqd
U7ZxJTuKmHDkZCVEBzGxl+Jl8AQxHHQzBI9PWuCBURR0q1eNeasfO3yWZpkRvK58uXf6vGZakYHZ
-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
They have generated a certificate (.cer) file for this, which looks like:
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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..
...
..
fDpYOCBy87y4C6CrCaR9WMrAOP2PIazHZFKNjz0sng6TOVQ+SxBW0mmBWJamt2DJ
RoBV8pUPMvKmO6ptqklhWOYe4lIIbowhM9K7qyQR03ICiGwMuocj6IbGrJwdfgr1
CTm+L1Zs7UNMJvNxBXTZ41gd9tRazFdo5yAqKO4nPXys0oV6NAmFtUjix+sy6rkn
4O5pyizzRdB2ABcBbpn2yTEggerL2SBwxEwoD1WR3+b09UNZKMBDkHcd8HuJ3NpO
F4b5LXnKDXNG9ZKFUVxcDM70mD0YH/ypCthp/2aBFzV46yF73hqXaQwMNQY+dd+R
orWm8k2LfwFOxs5jqQ==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
Apache configuration in ssl.conf file:
SSLCertificateFile /etc/pki/tls/certs/signed.cer
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/pki/tls/private/generated.keystore
Now when I start my apache I get an error saying:
[Tue Jan 24 13:10:38 2012] [error] Init: Private key not found
[Tue Jan 24 13:10:38 2012] [error] SSL Library Error: 218710120 error:0D094068:asn1 encoding routines:d2i_ASN1_SET:bad tag
[Tue Jan 24 13:10:38 2012] [error] SSL Library Error: 218529960 error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag
[Tue Jan 24 13:10:38 2012] [error] SSL Library Error: 218595386 error:0D07803A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_ITEM_EX_D2I:nested asn1 error
[Tue Jan 24 13:10:38 2012] [error] SSL Library Error: 218734605 error:0D09A00D:asn1 encoding routines:d2i_PrivateKey:ASN1 lib
Does anyone know what is the issue?