Wildcard SSL CSR generation failure. Please help.

[wheatgrass]

To generate a wildcard SSL CSR, I have to enter the following in the Common Name field:

*.domainname.com

However, when I tried that in DA, I got an error message saying that it's invalid. Please help.

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

I'll update the formchecking to allow * characters for the common name so you can use *.domain.com.
Available for the next release.

For the time being, you can do it manually:

/usr/bin/openssl genrsa 1024 > private.key
/usr/bin/openssl req -new -key private.key

John

 

[wheatgrass]

May I know when will be the next release? If I have to do it manually as per your code, do I log in as admin or user? After login, do I go into the admin's or user's /usr/bin/openssl?

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

The release won't be for a while.

For manually via ssh, it doesn't really matter.
You can be under any user, in any directory (that the logged in user has write access in). The only thing that matters is the key can csrt created. Save their output and they'll be used when you get the actual certificate back with from your csr (you *need* the key to use the new cert, don't lose it)

John

 

[wheatgrass]

So how do I specify things like company name, country etc. if I do it manually?

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

It should ask you when you run it.

John