Problem installing ssl certificate from godaddy

apache windows godaddy ssl cert installation

[troyd1]

I am running apache on windows. I currently have ssl running and have a key.pem file and a domain.crt file. Everyhting is working. I renewed the ssl cert and download the file from godaddy and have 2 files a xyzzy.crt and a gd_bundle.crt. I tried configuring the server with those files. but got an error saying AH02245: Init: SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin is not supported on Win32 (key file C:/apache/cert.crt) when I try to start it up. I did some research and tried the openssl rsa -in cert.crt -out certout.crt, but it says that there is no private key in there. I know when I did the signing certificate, I did not do a passphrase key. I also found where it said to comment out the SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin directive in the httpd.conf file. I do not have it in there. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am a novice at this at best.
Thanks in advance for any help.

[troyd1]

Any suggestions?

[lucy24]

Sit tight. You need someone who actually speaks Apache, and there aren't as many as you'd think.

Is it your own physical server or a VPS?

[phranque]

it's not just apache, it's also about secure web protocol on a windows environment.

have you tried searching C:/apache/ and its subfolders for any file containing "SSLPassPhraseDialog"?

[troyd1]

It is my physical server.

To Pharanque: Yes and there are references to it in extra/httpd-ssl/conf, but my virtual container with the ssl code in it does not have it and it is not linked. I merged the code into my httpd.conf instead of linking it. I commented that line out in the extra folder just in case and it did not make a difference.

[troyd1]

I guess the thing that gets me is that I was using a cert from godaddy that was installed on an xitami server and I installed apache adn got it working. I just copied the cert files over and configured it and it worked. I think the key is that I need to get similar cert files, but with my limited knowledge of the cert process, I am not sure how/what I am looking for or how to request it. Godaddy was not help. They have sales people posing as technical support. All they do is read google and try to keep you on the line as long as possible to upsell you stuff. They were no help at all. You would think a large company like that would have some knowledgeable technical support people.

[troyd1]

I have figured it out. I am posting this so it may help someone else out or maybe me in 2 years when I need to do this again. Not understanding how the whole ssl process worked, I went through and generated a signing certificate. I did not enter anything in for the passphrase which was ok. When I generated the newkey using openssl, I did not realize that this was the new key file. I thought that because I did not enter a passphrase, there was no key file, so I commented out the keyfile. Once I put that in with the generated keyfile, it worked and upon testing it with the godaddy testing tool, it was installed correctly. I obviously was not sure how everything needed to be installed and unfortuneltely, neither did godaddy.

[phranque]

thanks for posting the resolution, troyd1!