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languagebash
ls -al /etc/ssl/
total 44
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      4096 2011-04-07 10:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 71 root root      4096 2011-06-08 14:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     20480 2011-06-21 11:41 certs
-rw-r--r--  1 root root      9374 2010-10-06 20:51 openssl.cnf
drwx--x---  2 root ssl-cert  4096 2011-06-13 20:59 private

If you opt to use your own private folder makes sure to set the same permissions.

Store the private key into the protected folder,

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languagebash
sudo cp www.earth.com_server.key /etc/ssl/private/
sudo chmod -R 640 /etc/ssl/private/*www.earth.com_server.key # Secure the file

If you opt to use your own private folder makes sure to set the same permissions.

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languagebash
sudo chown -R root:ssl-cert /etcopt/apache/httpd/ssl/private/* # Make the user starting Apache the owner, in this case it is root.
sudo chown 710 /opt/apache/httpd/ssl/private/
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The ssl-cert group is a special group to make it easy for other processes to use certs.

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