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- This is the ssl.csr/ directory of Apache/mod_ssl
- where PEM-encoded X.509 Certificate Signing Requests for SSL are stored.
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- Per default the following file is provided:
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- o server.csr:
- This is the server certificate signing request for Apache/mod_ssl
- corresponding to the ../ssl.crt/server.crt file. Per default this is a
- dummy file, but may be overwritten by the `make certificate' target under
- built-time. Then it contains the CSR which you can send to a public
- Certification Authority (CA) for requesting a real signed certificate
- (which then can replace the ../ssl.crt/server.crt file).
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- You can also use this directory for temporarily storing CSRs from within your
- (CGI-) scripts when you want to perform client authentication with your own
- CA instance.
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- You can view the ingredients of a particular CSR file in plain text
- by running the command:
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- $ openssl req -noout -text -in <name>.csr
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