This web page describes the process of creating a certificate as well as self-signing it. Just ignore the instructions related to creating your own CA and signing the certificate if you are going to have someone like VeriSign sign your certificate. The syntax listed, which worked for me was:
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
Steve
On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Gropp, Eric wrote:
I am trying to create a cert for my apache2 server. Here is the command I am using
/usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl genrsa -des3 1024 /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.key
Everything appears to work, except it does not write the file. There are no error messages, and it appears to encrypt a key. I have done a search for the key file but it is not found.
This is an upgrade from a previous version of openssl where there was a server key generated in a previous life.
Can anyone assist please?
Eric Gropp
ICG Communications
303-414-5063
