Generating Your Own Security Certificates For Use With Apache/HTTPS - Prepare the Working Environment

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Become root, create and navigate to a working source directory.

$ su root > password: ***** # mkdir /usr/src/server-sources # cd /usr/src/server-sources

Download the necessary sources. The version number of modssl must match the version number of Apache. Also, record the files' md5sums from their websites.

apache_1.3.29.tar.gz - www.apache.org

openssl-0.9.7d.tar.gz - www.openssl.org

mod_ssl-2.8.16-1.3.29.tar.gz - www.modssl.org

Verify the integrity of the downloads using md5sum.

# for f in `ls`; do md5sum $f; done

Extract the archives.

# for f in `ls`; do tar -zxvf $f; done

Create an user groups and accounts necessary for the software to install and run.

# groupadd -g 99 nogroup # useradd -u 99 -g 99 -d / -c Apache nobody

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