I am running windows xp 32bit
I just downloaded Openssl from the following URL and installed it.
http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
and then i tried to create a self signed certificate by using the following command
openssl req -x509 -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout hostkey.pem -nodes -out hostcert.pem
then it started giving the following error
Unable to load config info from /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf
Then after googling sometime i changed the above command to
openssl req -config C:\OpenSSL\bin\openssl.conf -x509 -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout hostkey.pem -nodes -out hostcert.pem
But now i get the following error in the command prompt
error on line -1 of C:\OpenSSL\bin\openssl.conf
4220:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or
directory:.\crypto\bio\bss_file.c:126:fopen('C:\OpenSSL\bin\openssl.conf','rb')
4220:error:2006D080:BIO routines:BIO_new_file:no such
file:.\crypto\bio\bss_file.c:129:
4220:error:0E078072:configuration file routines:DEF_LOAD:no such
file:.\crypto\conf\conf_def.c:197:
Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Best Answer
On Windows you can also set the environment property
OPENSSL_CONF
. For example from the commandline you can type:to validate it you can type:
You can also set it as part of the computer's environmental variables so all users and services have it available by default. See, for example, Environment variables in Windows NT and How To Manage Environment Variables in Windows XP.
Now you can run openssl commands without having to pass the config location parameter.