This being my first attempt at setting up a leopard webserver i was getting a tad frustrated with apache and the SSL setup for one of the websites. Everytime I dropped in the site's config the server wouldn't start, giving a bad passphrase error in the console. Not being able to find an option for this in my SSL config I was going around in circles and getting scared that this would be a show-stopper for our new server, especially after reading so many forum posts saying that SSL in leopard was a nightmare requiring custom builds of apache and openSSL etc...
Salvation was found in the Server Admin tool... despite the fact that once you start manually editing the virtual host site files the lovely web config panel ceases to recognise any of your sites, there is a quite useful 'Certificates' button when you select the root node of your server.
I had already copied all the related cert files from the 10.4 server to /private/etc/certificates, so it was then a simple matter of choosing the import certificate option and figuring out which files to put in what box.
My files ended up being:
- certificate file (*.crt)
- private key file (*.key)
- certificate authority file (*.chcrt)
- private key passphrase (this was the thing that instantly fixed it for apache)
From here it worked like a dream! I hope this will save similar worry to some of you out there...
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