[ale] SSL Certs for $14.95

[Christopher Fowler]

Sorry.  I meant to send this straight to James but it went out on the
list.

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 09:36 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> James,
> 
> I've not got a CERT before but with this $14.95 service that ahs been
> mentioned I am looking at going ahead and doing it.
> 
> Could you please tell me how you went about creating the request and
> getting the cert for your DN name that is an IP.  I want to begin the
> process for my server.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 13:26 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > yep!
> > 
> > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 13:16 -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > So my DN is the IP Address and in httpd.conf I set ServerName to the
> > > same address?
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:24 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > > Certs are tied to whatever is used to identify the web site address.
> > > > 
> > > > By using a common name of the IP address and setting that, valid, IP
> > > > address to be the ServerName in apache, all requirements are met. The
> > > > cert still has owner verification of the IP address and the business
> > > > name, etc.
> > > > 
> > > > go to https://216.23.87.189/
> > > > 
> > > > The index page is blank as that machine runs everything as an
> > > > application server that is pointed to by another machine. Check the
> > > > server certificate for validity.
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 10:08 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > > > James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > > > > In the case of my guy with the IP address, he changed ISP and thus
> > > > > > got a new IP address for his server. That required him to buy a new
> > > > > > cert.
> > > > > 
> > > > > SSL Certs aren't tied to IP addresses, they are tied to DNS names.
> > > > > 
> > > > > -Jim P.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
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