I can’t create Self-Signed SSL Certificate in 10.3.4 Server

[dvsmith]

Alright, I’m following the instructions from: [url]https://www.afp548.com/Articles/Panther/sslinfo.html[/url]

Everything goes smoothly until I try to sign the certificate using my CA with this command:[code:1:50e8d95f27]openssl ca -policy policy_anything -in server.csr -out server.crt[/code:1:50e8d95f27]

What results is:
[code:1:50e8d95f27]Using configuration from /System/Library/OpenSSL/openssl.cnf
Enter pass phrase for ./demoCA/private/cakey.pem:
Error opening CA certificate ./demoCA/cacert.pem
4363:error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory:bss_file.c:259:fopen(’./demoCA/cacert.pem’,’r’)
4363:error:20074002:BIO routines:FILE_CTRL:system lib:bss_file.c:261:
unable to load certificate[/code:1:50e8d95f27]

I have no idea what that means… am I doing something wrong? The password is exactly as I entered it for the CA… (I am logged in as [i:50e8d95f27]root[/i:50e8d95f27] to perform this task.)

contents of [i:50e8d95f27]/etc/certs/[/i:50e8d95f27]:[code:1:50e8d95f27]webcube:/etc/certs root# ls
ca.crt ca.key demoCA server.csr server.key

webcube:/etc/certs root# ls demoCA/
index.txt newcerts private serial[/code:1:50e8d95f27]

[dvsmith]

Nevermind — I accidentally put the requested file in the ‘private’ directory

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