Openfire and DigiCert wildcard cert?

Openfire Openfire Support
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I cannot believe how difficult it is to get SSL working for this server.

Can anyone out there point me to a thread or discussion that will let me setup SSL correctly on an Ubuntu 10.04 server using a wildcard cert from DigiCert? I’ve tried generating keys using their wizards. I’ve followed about a dozen different walkthrus found here and through Google, though most seem to be several years old.

Can somebody please point me in the right direction? I can live with a self-signed cert if necessary, but I’d rather not.

Craig

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I’m using a wildcard cert from Verisign with Openfire and it is working happily. You need to use the keytool utility from Java to create the keystore.

Try following these instructions:

http://www.lovelysystems.com/importing-an-existing-ssl-certificate-to-openfire/

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Did you ever get this to work?

I know its possible to get it working, because i’ve done it somehow.

I didn’t take note of how I did it though~~

Now my certs expired and I can’t figure it out again!! Anyone?

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Followed these instructions and they seemed to do the trick

http://community.igniterealtime.org/docs/DOC-2208

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I totally get the struggle—setting up SSL on Ubuntu 10.04 with a DigiCert wildcard cert gave me headaches too. What worked for me with Openfire was converting the DigiCert-provided .crt and .key files into a Java Keystore (JKS) format since Openfire expects that. I used openssl to convert the key/cert to a PKCS12 file, then keytool to import it into a keystore. DigiCert’s support has decent docs, but this guide helped me connect the dots. Make sure the cert chain is complete too! If you need to understand in detail let me know.

I hope it helps!