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juangake
01-31-2006, 09:58 AM
Situation:

You have an installed SSL certificate on an Interworx box, and want to migrate to another box without re-keying, but you've lost your private key.

You need to use the "Migrate Existing SSL Data files" option under Siteworx for the desired domain, at "SSL Certificates".

This option *requires* two things:
1) Your private key (issued to you when you requested de Cert)
2) The Certificate (that you can get re-issued from your SSL cert provider).

If you've lost your private key, you can go to the box where the certificate is already installed and retrieve it from a file like:

/home/username/var/domain.tld/ssl/domain.tld.priv.key

For example, if your domain is "mydomain.com" and username for that domain is "mydoma" you can do from SSH as root:

# cat /home/mydoma/var/mydomain.com/ssl/mydomain.com.priv.key

If still can't find it then try this to look for the exact path:

# updatedb
# locate mydomain.com.priv.key

And that's it. You've got the two requisites to migrate your certificate.

I needed this to make an exact copy of a site being load balanced between two boxes and need exact SSL information on both boxes.

Hope it helps someone.

Regards,

Juan