RE: What does it mean - "Name on certificate does not match name of the site"

[Guido Medina <gm...@mercantil.com.do>]

put the qualified name of your machine: yourmachine.yourdomain.com, if you
are only trying with localhost put localhost

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard S. Huntrods [mailto:huntrods@nucleus.com]
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 1:55 PM
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: What does it mean - "Name on certificate does not match name of
the site"


Greetings!

Last post for a while - I promise! <G>

What does it mean - "Name on certificate does not match name of the
site"?

 I did the "self-signed" certificate thing for SSL.  There are three
messages that appear on the pop-up dialog when you access the secure
site.  The first says "The certificate ... non-trusted company" (in
essence). It is a warning.  The second message says "... date is valid".
It is "OK".  The third warning is the one above.

I know and expect the first warning - unless someone like Verisign
"signs" the certificate, it is considered untrusted.  Self-signed
certificates will always give this warning.  No problem.

However, when you create a self-signed cert, I cannot find a place to
put the site - so I cannot see how this third warning can be prevented.
The questions are:
Your name (I assume that's my personal name)
Your company org unit (what the heck is this?  I put my domain name
here)
Your company (obvious)
Your city (obvious)
Your province/state (obvious)
Your country code (two letters)

Besides the passwords, I cannot see what would signify "site" to the
certificate.

Assistance?  Feel free to point me to something on Sun or Verisign's
site.  I didn't find anything on a cursory look-over, but I'd be glad to
know of an "M" to "RTF".

Cheers, and thanks  in advance.

-Richard




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