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Generating Your Own Security Certificates For Use With Apache/HTTPS
By: bluephoenix
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    2004-01-27

    Table of Contents:
  • Generating Your Own Security Certificates For Use With Apache/HTTPS
  • Prepare the Working Environment
  • Install OpenSSL
  • Install Apache
  • Request, Sign and Install the Certificate
  • Configure Apache
  • Start/Stop Apache

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    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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