[SOLUTION] keytool "unrecognized option '-keyalg'"

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PHPin24  
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2010-06-03 13:22:30  
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When running the keytool command
keytool -certreq -alias tomcat -keyalg  RSA -file certreq.csr -keystore [keystorename]
as specified in Thawte Knowledge Center - SSL Certificates Support

You might get the error: "certreq: unrecognized option '-keyalg'"

This is because the one parameter is wrong it should not be keyalg but sigalg. So the correct command is this:

keytool -certreq -alias tomcat -sigalg  RSA -file certreq.csr -keystore [keystorename]


Hope this helps as it kept me busy for hours

By PHPin24 @ 2010-06-03 13:22:30