Generate a private key:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">openssl genrsa -des3 -out www.domain.com.ssl.key 1024<br></div><br>Create a CSR:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">openssl req -new -key www.domain.com.ssl.key -out www.domain.com.ssl.csr<br>
<i>note: enter full domain (<a href="http://www.domain.com">www.domain.com</a>) for CN (common name)</i><br></div><br>Remove password from private key (optional):<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">openssl rsa -in www.domain.com.ssl.key -out www.domain.com.ssl.key.nopass<br>
</div><br>Generate self-signed cert:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in www.domain.com.ssl.csr -signkey www.domain.com.ssl.key -out www.domain.com.ssl.crt<br><i>note: use .nopass if you removed the password from the private key</i><br>
</div><br>Hope that helps. I'm not sure about generating a wildcard cert.<br><br>Nick<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Robert Gabriel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@ruby-forum.com">lists@ruby-forum.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Does anyone know how to generate self-signed certificate for nginx?<br>
maybe even with wildcard or for multiple subdomains?!<br>
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I mean the openssl command, if possible.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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