"Thomas J. Clancy" wrote:
>
> Hey All,
>
> I have this strange problem that occurs when I run the openssl.exe command
> line utility under Windows 2000. It crashes when I do the following
>
> openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt
>
> The error I get has to do with a configuration file. Here is the error:
>
> C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache\conf\test>openssl req -new -x509 -days
> 365
> -key ca.key -out ca.crt
> Using configuration from
> c:\development\openssl/c:\development\openssl/ssl/openssl.cnf
> Unable to load config info
>
> First of all, when I built the openssl stuff, and followed what little
> instructions there were for Win32, I found no file called openssl.cnf. And
> note the "Using configuration from" line. It seems to be a completely
> malformed path. The only thing I did with my environment was to add
> c:\development\openssl\bin to my path. Anyway, when I run this I get an
> actual core dump (or whatever it's called in Windows...a memory access
> violation or something). Any ideas? I need to create certificates and such
> for testing and it seems that I need this utility to actually do it.
>
The file called openssl.cnf is in the apps directory. The easiest thing
to do is to copy it somewhere convenient and then set the environment
variable OPENSSL_CONF to point to it. This is mentioned in the req
manual page.
There is a bug in OpenSSL 0.9.6 where the req utility will crash if it
can't find the configuration file.
Steve.
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