Creating a self signed certificate for apache - A very quick HowTo

1. generate a private key ( Tag - self signed certificate for apache)

openssl genrsa -des3 -out yourdomain.com.key 1024

2. Generate CSR ( Tag - self signed certificate for apache)

openssl req -new -key yourdomain.com.key -out yourdomain.com.csr

Now enter all details as shown below 

Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:IN

State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:WB

Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:Kolkata

Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:ABC Co

Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:Information Technology

Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:www.yourdomain.com

Email Address []:admin@yourdomain.com

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes

to be sent with your certificate request

A challenge password []:

An optional company name []:

3. Remove passphrase ( Tag - self signed certificate for apache)

cp yourdomain.com.key yourdomain.com.key.orig

openssl rsa -in yourdomain.com.key.orig -out yourdomain.com.key

4. generate certificate  ( Tag - self signed certificate for apache)

openssl x509 -req -days 730 -in yourdomain.com.csr -signkey yourdomain.com.key -out yourdomain.com.crt

5. Copy required files

cp server.crt /etc/apache2/conf/ssl.crt

cp server.key /etc/apache2/conf/ssl.key

6: Configuring SSL In Apache( Tag - self signed certificate for apache)

User the SSL Vhosts or in main configuration file 

put 

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SSLEngine on

SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/conf/ssl.crt

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/conf/ssl.key

SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown

CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \

   "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

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7: Restart Apache ( Tag - self signed certificate for apache)

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

/etc/init.d/apache2 stop

You are done , now test :)