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Three steps to create a self-signed certificate in Apache for Ubuntu 11.10

It is very simple and quick to create a self-signed certificate on your development machine. Of course you would never use this on a production server because self-signed certificates are vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. 

You will need to make sure that you have the ssl-cert and libapache2-mod-gnutls packages installed.

Step One: Use the ssl-cert package to create a self-signed certificate.  This will create the certificate files in /etc/ssl which is where the Ubuntu default Apache configuration expects to find them.

make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil --force-overwrite

Step Two: Active the SSL module and the default SSL site using the convenience wrappers:



a2enmod ssl


a2ensite default-ssl





Step Three: Restart Apache






service apache2 restart

















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  1. Unknown17 May 2013 at 14:52
    I will definitely try these steps to create a self signed certificate. I will get back to you if any problem arise. Thanks for sharing.
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