Strange SSL Problem (can't read certificate)

["Daniel Fabian" <df@FabianD.net>]

Hi List,

I'm trying to include ssl support for apache on my freshly installed
debian system. However it seems I'm failing miserably, because of the
following error which I get everytime I try to start Apache:

[Fri Oct 18 21:13:24 2002] [notice] SIGUSR1 received.  Doing graceful
restart
[Fri Oct 18 21:14:28 2002] [error] mod_ssl: Init: Unable to read server
certificate from file /etc/apache/ssl.crt/server.crt (OpenSSL library
error follows)
[Fri Oct 18 21:14:28 2002] [error] OpenSSL: error:0D09F007:asn1 encoding
routines:d2i_X509:expecting an asn1 sequence

I have the following packages installed:

server:~/# dpkg -l | grep openssl
ii  openssl        0.9.6g-9       Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and
related
server:~/# dpkg -l | grep apache
ii  apache         1.3.26-0woody1 Versatile, high-performance HTTP
server
ii  apache-common  1.3.26-0woody1 Support files for all Apache
webservers
ii  libapache-mod- 2.8.9-2        Strong cryptography (HTTPS support)
for Apac

I built a new certificate for my server by issuing these commands:

openssl genrsa -out server.key 4096
openssl req -new -key server.key -x509 -out server.crt


I searched for the problem and found quite a number of people asking for
it, but either they forgot to replace the dummy server.crt, or they did
not get an answer.

Thanks for your help in advance,
Daniel