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Information about setting up the Apache Server - Links to serve multiple HTTPS sites using one IP address, see also VhostTaskForce.
You must have all the domain names that you want to use registered with http://www.cacert.org/ before you can generate a cert.
easy to use graphical tool on GNU
The tool xca is managing a local database of keys, signing requests and can easily convert from one key format to others.
Generating a Cert on cli
The easiest way is to use the CSRGenerator shell script:
Save it locally and then run it, be sure to repeat the commonname as a subjectaltname, the short host name is just used for the file name.
This is an example of how it works:
[example@example ~]$ sh csr Private Key and Certificate Signing Request Generator This script was designed to suit the request format needed by the CAcert Certificate Authority. www.CAcert.org Short Hostname (ie. imap big_srv www2): example FQDN/CommonName (ie. www.example.com) : example.org Type SubjectAltNames for the certificate, one per line. Enter a blank line to finish SubjectAltName: DNS:example.org SubjectAltName: DNS:www.example.org SubjectAltName: DNS:foo.example.org SubjectAltName: DNS:www.foo.example.org SubjectAltName: DNS:bar.example.org SubjectAltName: DNS:www.bar.example.org SubjectAltName: DNS:example.bar SubjectAltName: DNS:www.example.bar SubjectAltName: DNS: Running OpenSSL... Generating a 2048 bit RSA private key ........................................................+++ ................................................+++ writing new private key to '/home/example/example_privatekey.pem' ----- Copy the following Certificate Request and paste into CAcert website to obtain a Certificate. When you receive your certificate, you 'should' name it something like example_server.pem -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- MIIDBjCCAe4CAQAwFjEUMBIGA1UEAxMLZXhhbXBsZS5vcmcwggEiMA0GCSqGSIb3 DQEBAQUAA4IBDwAwggEKAoIBAQClsXcoj86dyYlIe96khbZqYtyV03ak+teyClv5 80I46irKcYQx4CFiirTCuusiAwsDfnDyZvnrwoxaUkc5nkw4Tlmb1j/y91U8rusX Zu43rep8s0zs7aMx/q34TTCc5Mru8UQjbnj9aCX1DF+8cA0ayQMm1BOFv8nTFcjK SnI5NdxRKDyqeH3KUgfxgGkBVU4VFVRU9XKD/zprzj+hWFT+fsjF7yQm0ZXDXaJ+ 0Yr9mDQjfzdLP3GObc7y7rwz8a5ozATwfpqZiWYjM34oKFPSj7kwLdA+otx0glGG e+P7G/E2uE+lbzi41CSFgKAjw3E0l1x47NoVD6DADS5mYIatAgMBAAGggaowgacG CSqGSIb3DQEJDjGBmTCBljCBkwYDVR0RBIGLMIGIggtleGFtcGxlLm9yZ4IPd3d3 LmV4YW1wbGUub3Jngg9mb28uZXhhbXBsZS5vcmeCE3d3dy5mb28uZXhhbXBsZS5v cmeCD2Jhci5leGFtcGxlLm9yZ4ITd3d3LmJhci5leGFtcGxlLm9yZ4ILZXhhbXBs ZS5iYXKCD3d3dy5leGFtcGxlLmJhcjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQQFAAOCAQEAHFiUDgVc lDGoq+2kLmQxKtYagc37sugw4OoutILxrXF0zJUSplF4Aco/KhBcSLQUpsW5u11Q tcxj4DqXrxsoZuawATKTGQXDaAxL/ud2FsXyhe2FC1h0id2cH12GsnDSziuFCM+t rz05dqnW6mZR5OHILlYPoIPNqk3tbkIyOs4GplL9PZLNjSKJ3oeXJXn1iSI6oegB dBJQMByDZsh7Xd/d1OFJMQq3TFMqmLEXErkXQnOmzBN375AHGYGZwozhVPjhfFZ1 74AvmxOe17+OLm1j10EA9J/5jLzIgK0vs7HgK0131S/JAV4Ik9JccAWByGlxeuVb 4Kf5vAucZZVe7g== -----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST----- The Certificate request is also available in /home/example/example_csr.pem The Private Key is stored in /home/example/example_privatekey.pem
Then paste your certificate into the cacert.org site (get a class 1 cert for the example configuration below) and you will get a server certificate back, save this as example_server.pem.
Example Configuration
You can specify and IP address or use a wild card but you can't mix them. It is possible that you have to add "Listen 192.168.0.1:443" to Apache configuration.
NameVirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443
# or
# NameVirtualHost *:443
# foo.example.org:443
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
# or
# <VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName foo.example.org:443
UseCanonicalName On
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/example_server.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/example_privatekey.pem
SSLCipherSuite HIGH
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
DocumentRoot "/var/www/foo.example.org"
<Directory "/var/www/foo.example.org">
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# www.foo.example.org:443
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
# or
# <VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.foo.example.org:443
UseCanonicalName On
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/example_server.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/example_privatekey.pem
SSLCipherSuite HIGH
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
Redirect / https://foo.example.org/
</VirtualHost>
# example.foo:443
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
# or
# <VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.foo:443
UseCanonicalName On
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/example_server.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/example_privatekey.pem
SSLCipherSuite HIGH
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
Redirect / https://foo.example.org/
</VirtualHost>
# www.example.foo:443
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
# or
# <VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.example.foo:443
UseCanonicalName On
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/example_server.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/example_privatekey.pem
SSLCipherSuite HIGH
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
Redirect / https://foo.example.org/
</VirtualHost>
# bar.example.org:443
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
# or
# <VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName bar.example.org:443
UseCanonicalName On
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/example_server.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/example_privatekey.pem
SSLCipherSuite HIGH
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
DocumentRoot "/var/www/bar.example.org"
<Directory "/var/www/bar.example.org">
Options Indexes
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# www.bar.example.org:443
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
# or
# <VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.bar.example.org:443
UseCanonicalName On
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/example_server.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/example_privatekey.pem
SSLCipherSuite HIGH
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
Redirect / https://bar.example.org/
</VirtualHost>
# example.bar:443
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
# or
# <VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName example.bar:443
UseCanonicalName On
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/example_server.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/example_privatekey.pem
SSLCipherSuite HIGH
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
Redirect / https://bar.example.org/
</VirtualHost>
# www.example.bar:443
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1:443>
# or
# <VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName www.example.bar:443
UseCanonicalName On
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache/example_server.pem
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache/example_privatekey.pem
SSLCipherSuite HIGH
SSLProtocol all -SSLv2
Redirect / https://bar.example.org/
</VirtualHost>
Domain Name Mismatch Errors
There seems to be various ways to get a Domain Name Mismatch error when setting up Apache to do multiple HTTPS VirtualHosts.
There is a screenshot of this error here: https://en.wiki.aktivix.org/CAcert
UseCanonicalName
Apache has UseCanonicalName On by default and when it is on you can use one VirtualHost with multiple ServerAlias' with all these ServerAlias' and the ServerName in the cert.
If however you have UseCanonicalName Off the you can't use any ServerAlias' and you have to have one VirtualHost per ServerName and then set all the VirtualHost's to use the same cert.
See the Apache docs for more info: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#usecanonicalname
Repeating the CommonName as a SubjectAltName
The CommonName is ignored if you have any SubjectAltName's so the best thing to do it to repeat the CommonName as a SubjectAltName. If you don't do this then a VirtualHost set up with the ServerName the same as the CommonName will result in a Domain Name Mismatch error message.
CSR Generator for Windows
[http://www2.futureware.at/~philipp/CSRGenerator.zip]