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2 Upgrading WebLogic Server 4.5 and 5.1 to Version 7.0

Digital Certificates Generated by the Certificate Servlet

Digital certificates obtained through a CSR created by the Certificate Request Generator servlet in WebLogic Server 5.1 cannot be used with this release of WebLogic Server.

When creating a CSR using the Certificate Request Generator servlet in WebLogic Server 5.1, the servlet does not make you specify a password for the private key. The password is required in order to use the private key and associated digital certificate with this release of WebLogic Server.

Use the JDK keytool utility to define a password for the digital certificate’s private key. The digital certificate can then be used with this release of WebLogic Server. Before using keytool to define the password for the private key, you may need to delete extra characters at the end of each line in the private key.

Private Keys and Digital Certificates

In this release of WebLogic Server, more stringent checks are performed on private keys and digital certificates. In order to use an existing private key and digital certificate, you must perform the following upgrade steps:

1.If the private key is encrypted, convert the key to PEM format using the java utils der2pem command and modify the header as follows:

----------BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY----------

...

-----------END RSA PRIVATE KEY---------------------

If the private key is not in PEM format, you receive the following exception:

java.lang.Exception:Cannot read private key from file C:\bea700sp5\user_proects\mydomain\privatkey.der Make sure password specified in environnment property weblogic.management.pkpassword is valid.

If the private key is unencrypted, use the java utils der.2pem command and modify the header as follows:

----------BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----------

...

----------END RSA PRIVATE KEY----------

2.Check to see if the digital certificate has an extra line at the end of the file. The following should be the last line of the certificate file:

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7 specifications

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