Re: [cobalt-users] Certs Location?

["Rick Ewart" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mike wrote:
> Does anyone know where the CSR is located (via lunix, not the GUI) on the
> Cobalt RAQ4r?  Ours seems to have disappeared, invalidating our cert, but
I
> have a copy of the CSR used to get the Cert.

Not necessarily an expert here, but don't you need the private key to
validate the cert? I thought it required that. The certificate request is
really a "public" key, if you will, used only for the certificate
generation. Maybe not - please correct if I am wrong. Most of this has been
determined through inspection and observation....

Anyhow, the certs are kept at /home/sites/www.yourdomain.com/certs

A typical directory will have:
certificate (from the issuer like Thawte)
certificate.bak (I presume the previous one - the self-signed cert)
equifaxca2 (your CA authority info)
key (the private key that works with the certificate)
request (the request you sent to get the certificate)

If you have a certificate that has been issued, you need to pair that with
the key that was in the dir at the time of issurance and is therefore
related to the request.

For those who are obtaining certs, I would recommend backing up this
directory whenever you generate a cert, so you have a copy if something gets
trashed.

HTH.
Rick