I was thinking it might be nsopenssl, rather than the certificate itself, that was giving me trouble. All I know is that it was not working on port 8443, and when we changed it to port 443 in the config file, it worked, with no other changes. So what sort of misconfiguration (still assuming this is something I did wrong) could that indicate???
Which version of nsopenssl are you using? Version 2.x w/ AOLserver 3.x? Or the newer 3.x w/ AOLserver 4.x? The configuration of these versions are rather different.