CentOS 6 has finally arrived. One of the easiest ways to get started is to do the netinstall...

Boot ISO:
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos-6/6/isos/i386/CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso
http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos-6/6/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-netinstall.iso

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Posted by Wyatt on July 16, 2011 11:30:00 AM EDT #

Every year, when my websites' SSL certificates expire I have to relearn how to generate them all over again. It's not that I forget the concepts, but I can never remember the exact syntax of the commands. This guide expects that you have OpenSSL installed and in your System Path.  My CA directory has the following structure:

CA/
- certs/
- keys/
- requests/
- serial.txt

Generate a key:

C:\CA>openssl genrsa -out keys\wildcard.wylovan.com-20110708.key 1024

Generate request from key:

C:\CA>openssl req -new -key keys\wildcard.wylovan.com-20110708.key -out requests\wildcard.wylovan.com-20110708.csr

Sign certificate from request:

C:\CA>openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in requests\wildcard.wylovan.com-20110708.csr -CA certs\ca.cer -CAkey keys\ca.key -CAserial serial.txt -out certs\wildcard.wylovan.com-20110708.cer

Good resources:

• OpenSSL Command-Line HOWTO
• Creating Certificate Authorities and self-signed SSL certificates
• OpenSSL Documents (official site)

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Posted by Wyatt on July 8, 2011 11:51:00 PM EDT #