https://wiki.williams-net.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Renewing_the_%27localhost%27_Certificate 2026-06-01T02:38:03Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.40.1 https://wiki.williams-net.org/index.php?title=Renewing_the_%27localhost%27_Certificate&diff=30&oldid=prev 2019-08-03T01:24:02Z

<p>Created page with &quot;This message comes about a year after the system is first installed: &lt;pre&gt; ################# SSL Certificate Warning ################ Certificate for hostname &#039;ramandu.wil...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>This message comes about a year after the system is first installed:<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> ################# SSL Certificate Warning ################<br /> <br /> Certificate for hostname &#039;ramandu.williams.localnet&#039;, in file (or by nickname):<br /> /etc/pki/tls/certs/localhost.crt<br /> <br /> The certificate needs to be renewed; this can be done<br /> using the &#039;genkey&#039; program.<br /> <br /> Browsers will not be able to correctly connect to this<br /> web site using SSL until the certificate is renewed.<br /> <br /> ##########################################################<br /> Generated by certwatch(1)&lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> The reference to &#039;genkey&#039; is cryptic and really should have a more specific command, but ...<br /> <br /> The correct command sequence to generate the new certificate is (as root):<br /> genkey --days 9999 --cacert &#039;hostname&#039;<br /> cd /etc/pki/tls/certs<br /> rm localhost.crt<br /> ln -s `hostname`.crt localhost.crt</div>

DrEdWilliams