Re[2]: [cobalt-users] RaQ4 Equifax Certs

[Brian Curtis <admin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Gerald,

Thursday, January 18, 2001, 1:00:23 AM, you wrote:

GW> "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>> Gerald Waugh wrote:
>> I've only done this on a RaQ2 so far, so I can't tell you how to do it
>> or if you can do it through the gui, but the "server" cert is
>> server-wide; and it's required for browsers that don't recognize the
>> Equifax cert.
>> I believe the answers may be in the archive; search for "Equifax"
>> (without the quotes of course).
>> If not, I could do it in one hour, commercially; if I take longer, I eat
>> the difference <smile>.

GW> Jeff,
GW> I called equifax and told them what they could do with their $79.00 cert and to
GW> credit my amx as I was not paying for it.
GW> I ordered a Thawte cert, took 24 hours to get it, but 5 minutes to install it.
GW> $125 ($100 renewal), but it works. That's a little cheaper than $200.00 / hour!
GW> PS. tucows are going to start selling certs in February!
GW> Gerald

OK. First off, do not bad-mouth a product or service of another company
just because you could not figure out "how to use it".

If you would have RTFM first, you would know that Equifax is a chained
CA, therefore the requirement of the intermediate CA certificate.

If you knew the first thing about SSL and Apache, there's only three
lines needed (only one is additional to a standard setup) to have
Apache up and running with a chained CA cert:

SSLCertificateFile    /path/to/secure.domain.com.cert
SSLCertificateKeyFile /path/to/secure.domain.com.key
SSLCACertificateFile /path/to/intermediate.ca.cert **

Not to burst your bubble, but most likely Tucows will also be a
chained CA and require an intermediate CA cert - same thing as
Equifax.  Also, Equifax certs are only $68 if you make a simple call a
request to be a "reseller", Tucows certs are $99 to resellers. Since
your so "hip" on Tucows, that's almost 6 free OSRS domain years for
the first Thawte cert year, and 3 free domain years for every renewal
of your Thawte cert.

Gee, I just installed 10 Equifax certs for clients ... you do the math.

Finally, Jeff offered you his words of wisdom, then his services if you
couldn't figure it out on your own.  Again, no reason for the smart
remark onlist because you couldn't "cut 'n paste".  Oh, and $200/hr is
NOT expensive for a tech that truly knows what they're doing.

Please direct all flames to bitbucket@xxxxxxxxx

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Best regards,
 Brian Curtis