[Gllug] Domain certificate warning

[Yashpal Nagar]

Hi there,
I am generating a self signed certicate for one of our pre-live
domain on a server. Server name is hosta and /etc/hosts is fine against 
a IP. I
have generated a mydomain.key as

openssl genrsa -out mydomain.key 1024

without encryption and then a csr and  a certificate as follows.

openssl req -new -key mydomain.key -out mydomain.csr

openssl x509 -req -days 360 -in mydomain.csr -signkey mydomain.key -out 
mydomain.crt

I am using a virtual host for a ssl domain, problem is when i start
the server everytime it shows me the following in ssl_error_log
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[Mon Oct 02 10:32:44 2006] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName(CN) 
`hosta' does NOT match server name!?
[Mon Oct 02 10:32:45 2006] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName(CN) 
`hosta' does NOT match server name!?
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During csr generation i have given my domainname not the server name
i.e mydomain.com instead of hosta.

Then why these error messages coming, anything i missed or wrong?
My Virtualhost config is:

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<VirtualHost 192.168.200.42:443 <http://192.168.200.42:443>>
  ServerAdmin webmaster at dummy-host.example.com 
<mailto:webmaster at dummy-host.example.com>
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mydomain
    ServerName mydomain.com <http://myuat.crystalholidays.co.uk>
    SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/mydomain.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/mydomain.key
#SSLCACertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/intermediate.crt
ErrorLog logs/mydomain.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/mydomain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
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Regards
Yashpal
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