Oracle Wallets – SSL/HTTPS OWM

OWM wallets ssl

Oracle Wallet is container/repository to store credentials like certificates, certificate request and private keys, and used if you wish to enable HTTPS.

* Oracle Wallets can be stored either on file system or LDAP Server (like OID)

Managing Wallets: You manage Oracle Wallets using Oracle Wallet Manager (owm – java based application). OWM is executable in $ORACLE_HOME/bin .
Using owm you can
i) create wallets
ii) create certificate request
iii) import certificate to wallet
iv) Upload wallet to directory

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SSL Wallet Directive for Web/Oracle-Apache Server
Directive SSLWallet used in ssl.conf (or httpd.conf) is used to define location of wallets which contains SSL Key and request file

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Question of day:How will you define Wallet location in httpd.conf if wallet is stored in OID instead of file system ?

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