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kron
Asked: 2011-01-31 09:04:58 +0800 CST

SSL Certificate not showing correct values? "SomeCity", "SomeState"

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I'm getting a warning with my SSL certificate - it's saying its self signed and not trusted, also that it belongs to a different domain but I've purchased it from DigiCert.

The weird thing is it shows...

OU = SomeOrganizationalUnit
O = SomeOrganization
L = SomeCity
S = SomeState

...as the parameters when looking at the certificate. I didn't choose any of these, is there something I'm missing?

I'm using apache / openssl

apache-2.2 ssl fedora openssl

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Hey kron, glad to see you again

    Could you please double check a couple of things to make sure you're reading the right cert

    • run openssl x509 -in CERTFILE -text, that'll show you all the information in the certificate that you bought from digicert
    • Check in your config that you're pointing your daemon to the right key and certificate

    If you're getting the error that the certificate is self-signed and those organizational specs it really looks like you're pointing to a default cert, or that you sent the wrong csr to Digicert

    In one word, looks like a mixup :)

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  2. It looks very likely that you haven't replaced the self signed certificate on the server with the one that you purchased.

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  3. Check /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf

    look at the path assigned to SSLCertificateFile

    ...sounds like it is pointing to the default cert, as Robert suggests

    Bumped this because I just had a 'duh' moment myself while setting up SSL on an Amazon EC2 instance

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