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Greetings…

I am having problems installing a SSL certificate for my Spiceworks instance. This always seems to be a difficult task every time I do this.

Can someone please help me with this? My certificate expired a couple of days ago, since then I have read various forums but now I am more confused than when I started.

I am sure I made my situation worse as I deleted my existing cert since this was suggested in one of the forums I read. Now I am trying to install my new cert and not getting too far.

I originally had a standard SSl cert, we have since then purchased a wildcard cert. We are hosting the Spiceworks instance on a Windows Server 2008R2.

If I could get a response from someone that can help me step by step to get this done it would be greatly appreciated.

frustrated marc

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You already have the cert, correct? If so, then:

From: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2754-setup-spiceworks-to-use-a-generated-ssl-cert

Apply the certificate to your spiceworks system

I will be following the steps outlined here: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/922 with a few updates to make the process easier.

  1. Copy the SSL cert you exported to the SpiceWorks server

  2. copy the cert to the folder c:\program files\SpiceWorks\httpd\ssl (or program files (x86 as needed), While you are in the folder make a backup of the certificate files that are there so you can use them if something gets messed up.

  3. Open a command prompt

  4. Change the directory to the path above (c:\program files\SpiceWorks\httpd\ssl)

  5. Start OpenSSL.exe (…..\bin\openssl.exe)

6 pkcs12 -in <cert_and_key>.pfx -nocerts -out ssl-private-key.pem -nodes returns: Enter Import Password: MAC verified OK

  1. pkcs12 -in <cert_and_key>.pfx -clcerts -nokeys -out ssl-cert.pem Enter Import Password: MAC verified OK

  2. rsa -in ssl-private-key.pem -out ssl-private-key.pem writing RSA key

  3. rsa -text -in ssl-private-key.pem

  4. restart your SpiceWorks install

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This thread may help as well: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/82864-public-ssl-certificate-in-4-5

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I start having problems on step #5. Step # 4 says to navigate to c:\program files\SpiceWorks\httpd\ssl, I did that…then step #5 says Start OpenSSL.exe (…..\bin\openssl.exe)…can you elaborate on what we are doing here? Do I just type in openssl.exe or do I put the …..\bin\openssl.exe) perimeters? Either way I get an error says, how do I start openssl?

sorry for all the questions, just having a heck of time doing this.

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My location is \servername\c$\Program Files (x86)\Spiceworks\bin\openssl.exe.

Can you be more specific on the error?

Openssl should open, by double clicking, as seen below.

openssl.PNG

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Sorry for the late response, however, I think I got it. I was just a tad confused about openssl commands but it seems to be working.

I did a SSL checker online and it checks out. helpdesk.cimarroninc.com

Thank you for your assistance, sorry to be such a noob at SSL certs :slight_smile:

marc

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