Oracle 5.0, Reference Manual

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Using SSL for Secure Connections
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If a message occurs during setup indicating
'...critical component is missing:
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables'
, cancel the setup and download one of the
following packages as well, again depending on your architecture (32-bit or 64-bit):
• Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables (x86), available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9B2DA534-3E03-4391-8A4D-074B9F2BC1BF
• Visual C++ 2008 Redistributables (x64), available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bd2a6171-e2d6-4230-b809-9a8d7548c1b6
After installing the additional package, restart the OpenSSL setup procedure.
During installation, leave the default
C:\OpenSSL-Win32
as the install path, and also leave the
default option
'Copy OpenSSL DLL files to the Windows system directory'
selected.
When the installation has finished, add
C:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin
to the Windows System Path
variable of your server:
1. On the Windows desktop, right-click the My Computer icon, and select Properties.
2. Select the Advanced tab from the System Properties menu that appears, and click the Environment
Variables button.
3. Under System Variables, select Path, then click the Edit button. The Edit System Variable
dialogue should appear.
4. Add
';C:\OpenSSL-Win32\bin'
to the end (notice the semicolon).
5. Press OK 3 times.
6. Check that OpenSSL was correctly integrated into the Path variable by opening a new command
console (
Start>Run>cmd.exe
) and verifying that OpenSSL is available:
Microsoft Windows [Version ...]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Windows\system32> cd \
C:\> openssl
OpenSSL> exit <<< If you see the OpenSSL prompt, installation was successful.
C:\>
Depending on your version of Windows, the preceding path-setting instructions might differ slightly.
After OpenSSL has been installed, use instructions similar to those from from Example 1 (shown earlier
in this section), with the following changes:
• Change the following Unix commands:
# Create clean environment
shell> rm -rf newcerts
shell> mkdir newcerts && cd newcerts
On Windows, use these commands instead:
# Create clean environment
shell> md c:\newcerts
shell> cd c:\newcerts
• When a
'\'
character is shown at the end of a command line, this
'\'
character must be removed
and the command lines entered all on a single line.
After generating the certificate and key files, to use them to test SSL connections, see Section 6.3.6.3,
“Using SSL Connections” .