Unable to load config info from /usr/local/ssl/openssl.cnf on Windows

Question

While using OpenSSL on Windows:

openssl genrsa -out privatekey.pem 1024 -->

Created successfully

openssl req -new -x509 -key          


        

Answer 1

You should specify the absolute path to the config, something like this:

openssl req -x509 -config "C:\OpenSSL-Win64\bin\openssl.cnf" ...