Secure Sockets Layer

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Procedure.svg Secure Sockets Layer
Organic Design procedure

Our convention is to keep all the certificates in /var/www/ssl along with the the SSL virtual host definition for the domain (see install a new server for that). First change the current directory to /var/www/ssl and create the certificate with the following command format:

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:1024 -days 3650 -nodes -x509 -keyout foo.com.pem -out foo.com.pem


Ensure the common name (cn) is entered as a wildcard such as *.foo.com so that the certificate applies to all the sub-domains such as www.foo.com or webmail.foo.com etc.

Ensure that the resulting file is accessible by the web-server:

chown www-data foo.com.pem