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Attempting to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) using Apache and OpenSSL on Windows Server 2003 I received the following error message: "Unable to load config info from /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf" Immediately it is obvious that the path specified is a *nix path, not a Windows path. Apparently ( link ) there is no standard place for the config file in Windows, automatically resulting in this error.  To remedy, add the following line to the openssl -config  "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\openssl.cnf" For example, openssl req -new -key my.key -config "C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\openssl.cnf" -out my.csr

I recently received the following error message when attempting to install Visual Sourcesafe 2005 Internet Access on a Windows Server 2003 box with an existing IIS installation. A little research led to the following information: "The code is trying to access the IIS website "IIS://localhost/W3SVC/1" using ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces) and obtain the COM interface IADsContainer. When it fails, the code displays the error message you mentioned." ( link ) Following the same poster's advice, I checked the web site ID and lo-and-behold it was not set to 1. From here the fix was pretty simple. 1. Backup your configuration in IIS. 2. Backup the following file (just to be safe...): C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\metabase.xml 3. Stop the IIS service 4. Open the following file in the editor of your choice: C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\metabase.xml 5. Locate the relevant website (Default Website in my case), for example IIS://localhost/Default Website/3. Replace ...