Introduction

In this tutorial, you first request a server certificate from the CA. Then you take the role of the CA and issue the requested certificate. To do this, you use the following scripts:

• create_srv_req.cmd creates a request for a server certificate, using the OpenSSL command openssl req. It creates a public/private key pair for your server, putting the public key in a certificate request, which you subsequently send to the CA.
• sign_srv.cmd, which processes a server certificate request created with the above script, and signs it using the openssl ca command. It creates a signed certificate, which contains the public key from the certificate request.

These scripts are supplied with Micro Focus Demo CA and are by default in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\DemoCA (Windows) or /opt/microfocus/DemoCA or $COBSSL (if set) (UNIX) after you have run the Micro Focus Demo CA installation.

To confirm the Windows directory with which they have been installed, look up the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Micro Focus\DemoCA\1.0\Setup\DemoCAFolder.This applies to Windows environments (local development) only.