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Quick steps to generate a self-signed certificate (for Apache)
posted on July 23rd 2019, at 09:54
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lunarg
To quickly generate a self-signed certificate, follow the steps below. Note that self-signed certificates should be avoided in production environments.
Generate the private key (here, 1024-bit is used, but you can change that to lower/higher):
openssl genrsa –out ca.key 1024
Generate the certificate signing request:
openssl req –new –key ca.key –out ca.csr
You will be asked for information to include in the signing request:
Country name (2 letters)
State or province
Full locality name (city)
Organization name
Department / organizational unit
Common name (or distinguished name): should be set to the FQDN of your server
E-mail address: set to a local contact (usually the sy
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