Topic: Importing a SSL wild card certificate in Apache24

[Srikara Divakara]

Apache version : Apache/2.4.18
OS : FreeBSD 10.2

I was trying to install a commercial SSL certificate generated as wild card certificate generated against CA using wild card like for example *.example.com
and was installing on one of FreeBSD apache server where its operating as abc.example.com
after applying the certificate files in httpd-ssl.conf .. apache is restarting fine but when i try to access via browser i get this error
net::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

have put certificates like mentioned below
a) SSLCertificateFile "/root/SSL/example/abc.example.com.cer"
b) SSLCertificateChainFile "/root/SSL/example/abc.example.com.CA.cer"
c) SSLCertificateKeyFile "/root/SSL/example/abc.example.com.key"


and also have put the Virtual hosts section entry as below

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerName abc.example.com
ServerAlias *.example.com
</VirtualHost>

Please guide me on resolving this issue

[maba]

First of all, I would double check whether the correct certificate is loaded. In your browser, look at the certificate details and check what it tells you as the

"common name" (CN)