APACHE SSL CERTIFICATE

If you would like to install an Extended Validation SSL Certificate it would be better to use Apache EV SSL Certificate. In case you have apache and openSSL installed you would have to generate and setup an SSL certificate for domains and generate a CSR.

While generating an Apache SSL certificate you could either purchase a SSL certificate from a certificate authority or generate a self signed certificate. This option costs nothing and provides the same level of encryption as a certificate purchased from a certificate authority but this option could irritate some users as Internet Explorer issues warning every time a user visits a site using a self signed certificate.

Given below are the steps for generating Apache SSL Certificates:

You must be aware of the fully qualified domain name of the website for which you would want a certificate. After this go ahead and generate key with the SSL genrsa command. This would generate a 1024 bit RSA private key. After this generate CSR with SSL req command. The command prompts X.509 attributes for the certificate. After this a self signed certificate will be generated and it would lead to generation of self signed certificate.