[Ubuntu-AE] Etisalat SSL Certificate

[Roy Verrips]

You're welcome - Apologies if the link was misleading.  I wasn't expecting you to follow the whole thing, just the first few steps until you'd extracted the cert's you needed.

Etisalat probably deal predominantly with Windows IIS Servers where their certs work fine "as attached".   Weird, but true - Although Apache is very popular it's volume is based on size of installations, not instances, e.g. Facebook uses apache, so it's popular, but for every 1 Facebook there are probably 80'000 small companies running their own IIS server.  99.9999% of traffic is handled by apache, but 80% of Etisalat customers are not apache customers.   Given the small uptake of Linux in the UAE, and your findings with Etisalat, it's likely apache is even less prevalent, which is terribly sad.  

(Just my 2 fils worth)

On Jul 5, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Mejo Jose <mejokj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Roy, but the link you sent talks about using iKeyman to use the certificate for IBM HTTP Server.
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> I wanted to use it for Apache so had to export the files separately from a Windows computer, then copy the content of 3 files to form something similar to ca-bundle.crt. 
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> I can understand Etisalat not providing Apache compatible certificates, but I have absolutely no clue why they can't provide instructions for using their certificate with Apache(which is the most popular web server).
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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Roy Verrips <roy at verrips.org> wrote:
> I believe the file they sent you needs windows to extract the certs you're used to having.
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> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21458997
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> Hope that helps
> 
> Roy
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> On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Mejo Jose <mejokj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I am having trouble with configuring Apache to use Etislat issued SSL certificate(chain.p7b).
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>> I have always used certificates from other vendors including Verisign without any issues, but they have provide two files to be configured as SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateChainFile in Apache configuration file.
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>> But Etisalat just issued a single file - chain.p7b and I tried unsuccessfully to extract/convert etc, but it just doesn't work.
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>> Has anyone here done this before?
>> 
>> Thanks.
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