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This is the generally accepted method of generating the key,
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su serveradmin bhitch # Use a sudo enabled account. cd ~ mkdir private sudo chmod 700 ./private cd private openssl genrsa -out server.key 2048 |
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The private directory is not necessary but present for convention.
The openssl command reads,
Because we do not want to enter a password every time the web server is restarted, remove the password from the key file,
The next step is to generate the CSR. |
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