Why is Apache complaining that my certificate CN does not match the server name?

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Issue

  • I am trying to configure SSL with Apache, but it is complaining that my certificate CN does not match the server name. Why is that?
[Wed Apr 20 14:46:31 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) 'rhel5vm.redhat.com' does NOT match server name!?

Environment

  • Apache
    • 2.x
  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server
    • 1.x

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