Renewing certificates on windows installation

[Morris, Andi]

Sorry, I've answered my first question already. I didn't realise I could command line into OpenSSL on a Windows box. That answers how I can get the server.key and the new certificate request file. Will I need a new server.key though?

Cheers again,
Andi

From: users-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:users-bounces at shibboleth.net] On Behalf Of Morris, Andi
Sent: 01 March 2013 11:52
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Subject: Renewing certificates on windows installation

Hi all,
My idp certificates are coming up for a renewal in the next month and I have a few questions regarding how to go about this if anyone can point me in the right direction? I also have a question regarding updating components on the IDP server.

1 - My installation is a Windows based one, but the installed certificates are Apache based. Do I just use a linux server somewhere to generate the new certificate request file and then export the corresponding private key from that once the request has been completed, or is there a way to generate apache cert requests from within the Windows install?

2- I publish the idp server through an ISA server, which requires IIS style certificates. Can I just use IIS certificates with the same friendly name on the ISA server and point them to port 443 on the idp server?

3 - With the recent concern regarding Java I'm concerned about leaving my Java install unpatched, however whenever I run the upgrade on the java software my IDP server won't start (from memory it's the tomcat service that won't start). I've looked inside the various Tomcat configs but I can't see anything that seems to tie it to an exact version number, do I need to do something funky inside to Tomcat to get it to recognise the updated java install? The paths declared in the Environment variables remains the same.

Cheers in advance for any pointers.

Andi
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