[openssl-users] Need help with creating a server certificate

[Neo meister]

I started the process of creating a chain of certificates from the root CA
down to a leaf certificate using openssl running on a debian vm. I
successfully created and verified the root cert, intermediate cert and
chain file. The issue I am having now is that when I go to create a leaf
cert to be used by the server it will not work for me. After generating the
key and and the CSR i use this command " *openssl* ca -config
path/to/config/folder/openssl.cnf -extensions server_cert -days 375 -notext
-md sha256 -in path/to/CSR/folder/www.testcert.com.csr.pem -out
path/to/output/cert/folder/www.testcert.com.cert.pem".

After running this command I get the output "using configuration from
path/to/config/folder/openssl.cnf".

When I check the folder i told openssl to place the newly created cert in
it is not there. I have tried changing to a different output folder for the
new cert but I get the same result. Any idea what is going on?


The guide I have been using up until this point is at:
https://jamielinux.com/docs/openssl-certificate-authority/create-the-root-pair.html
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