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Self sign SSL

  1. Generate private key
  2. Create a signing request(CSR)
  3. Create a self signed certificate
  4. Combine the private key and self signed certificate.

A private key and singing request is required for create a ssl certificate.

  1. openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out key.pem
  2. openssl req -new > cert.csr
  1. openssl x509 -in cert.csr -out cert.pem -req -signkey key.pem -days 1001
  2. cat key.pem>>cert.pem

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout server.key -out server_csr.txt -subj “/C=*Country*/ST=*State or Province*/L=*Locality or City*/O=*Company*/OU=*Organizational unit*/CN=*Common Name*”

Server.key is private key

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