7.2. Configuring Publishing to a File

The general process to configure publishing involves setting up a publisher to publish the certificates or CRLs to the specific location. There can be a single publisher or multiple publishers, depending on how many locations will be used. The locations can be split by certificates and CRLs or finer definitions, such as certificate type. Rules determine which type to publish and to what location by being associated with the publisher.

Publishing to file simply publishes the CRLs or certificates to text files on a given host.

Publishers must be created and configured for each publishing location; publishers are not automatically created for publishing to a file. To publish all files to a single location, create one publisher. To publish to different locations, create a publisher for each location. A location can either contain an object type, like user certificates, or a subset of an object type, like West Coast user certificates.

To create publishers for publishing to files:

After configuring the publisher, configure the rules for the published certificates and CRLs, as described in Section 7.5, “Creating Rules”.