Policy Server Guides › Policy Server Configuration Guide › Troubleshooting SSL Authentication Schemes › SSL Configuration › Enable the Web Server to Trust Client Certificates in Apache

Enable the Web Server to Trust Client Certificates in Apache

If a certificate authority is already installed on your web server, go on to the next section. Otherwise, install a certificate for the CA on the SSL Web Server as follows.

To enable the Web Server to trust client certificates in Apache

1. Download and build the following Apache components:
   • Apache
   • OpenSSL
   • Mod_SSL
   • Mod_so - This module is included as part of Apache, but it must be enabled during the build of the Web server.
   • RSAref-2.0

     See the Policy Server Installation Guide for details about installing the web server.

2. Copy the CA certificate into the apache/conf/ssl.crt directory in x509 b64 format.
3. Run make in the apache/conf/ssl.crt directory.
4. Restart the Web Server.