Creat SSL Certificates

Create a your server's original SSL Certificate. If you use your server as a business, it had better buy and use a Formal Certificate from Verisign and so on.

root@www:~# aptitude -y install openssl

root@www:~# cd /etc/ssl/private 

root@www:/etc/ssl/private# openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 2048 

Generating RSA private key, 2048 bit long modulus

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e is 65537 (0x10001)

Enter pass phrase for server.key:# set passphrase

Verifying - Enter pass phrase for server.key:# confirm

# remove passphrase from private key

root@www:/etc/ssl/private# openssl rsa -in server.key -out server.key 

Enter pass phrase for server.key:# passphrase

writing RSA key

root@www:/etc/ssl/private# openssl req -new -days 3650 -key server.key -out server.csr 

You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated

into your certificate request.

What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.

There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank

For some fields there will be a default value,

If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.

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Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:JP# country

State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:Hiroshima   # state

Locality Name (eg, city) []:Hiroshima# city

Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:GTS   # company

Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Server World   # department

Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:www.server.world   # server's FQDN

Email Address []:[e-mail]# email address

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes

to be sent with your certificate request

A challenge password []:

An optional company name []:

root@www:/etc/ssl/private# openssl x509 -in server.csr -out server.crt -req -signkey server.key -days 3650 

Signature ok

subject=/C=JP/ST=Hiroshima/L=Hiroshima/O=GTS/OU=Server World/CN=www.server.world/emailAddress=[e-mail]

Getting Private key

root@www:/etc/ssl/private# chmod 400 server.*