Receiving error ./demoCA/newcerts: No such file or directory [closed]

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I am trying to sign my CSR file with my CA.

I am using the following command :

openssl ca -in server.csr -out server.crt -cert ca.crt -keyfile ca.key -config openssl.cnf

My openssl.cnf has not been altered and it is at its default state.

Please refer to pic below:

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Looks like a permission issue. Can you try giving access to newcerts directory? – Jay
Possible duplicate of No such file or directory but directory is right there – czifro
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czifro is correct. The ./demoCA is specified in the openssl.cnf file – BarryPye

2 Answers

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When this command is run in the demoCA folder, and it is looking for newcerts folder, it should just search for newcerts, but is instead searching for ./demoCA/newcerts, even though it is already in the newcerts folder! I don't know why...

To fix this, I moved up a folder (out of the demoCA folder, and into whatever folder is holding your demoCA folder), then changed the command so that all the files have ./demoCA in front of them:

openssl ca -in ./demoCA/server.csr -out ./demoCA/server.crt -cert ./demoCA/ca.crt -keyfile ./demoCA/ca.key -config ./demoCA/openssl.cnf

Then it finally worked for me!!

(A better way to fix the issue would be to figure out why it is searching for ./demoCA/newcerts instead of simply newcerts, but I couldn't figure it out.)

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Modifying permissions is an easy test to see if you are targeting the wrong location. For kicks and grins try your overriding the out location to the same location you are working with, like this:

openssl ca -in server.csr -out ~/demoCA/server.crt -cert ca.crt -keyfile ca.key -config openssl.cnf