Originally I created a post on how to generate ssl certificate with one simple step: http://ricochen.wordpress.com/2010/01/01/generate-ssl-certificate-in-1-quick-step/ ↗
I am here to document the procedure in this first post of my Octopress based blog.
Command to generate SSL certificate (and its associated private key) is pretty straight-forward:
$ openssl req -new -x509 -days 3650 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -newkey rsa:2048 -subj "/CN=hostname.example.org"If a password is created in the above step, you’ll need one extra step to remove it unless you want to type the password everytime you restart the web server:
$ openssl rsa -in key.pem -out key.pem