{"id":156,"date":"2017-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/17\/generate-ssl-key-and-certificate-using-openssl\/"},"modified":"2018-03-11T16:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:33:15","slug":"generate-ssl-key-and-certificate-using-openssl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/17\/generate-ssl-key-and-certificate-using-openssl\/","title":{"rendered":"Generate SSL key and certificate using openssl"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"code\">$ mkdir ~\/gencerts\r\n$ cd ~\/gencerts\r\n$ openssl genrsa -des3 -passout pass:x -out server.pass.key 2048\r\n$ openssl rsa -passin pass:x -in server.pass.key -out server.key\r\n$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr\r\n\r\nYou are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated\r\ninto your certificate request.\r\nWhat you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.\r\nThere are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank\r\nFor some fields there will be a default value,\r\nIf you enter '.', the field will be left blank.\r\n-----\r\nCountry Name (2 letter code) [XX]:US\r\nState or Province Name (full name) []:Massachusetts\r\nLocality Name (eg, city) [Default City]:Boston\r\nOrganization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]:MyOrg\r\nOrganizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:MyUnit\r\nCommon Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []: my.server.com\r\nEmail Address []:foobar@my.server.com\r\n\r\nPlease enter the following 'extra' attributes\r\nto be sent with your certificate request\r\nA challenge password []:\r\nAn optional company name []:\r\n\r\n$ openssl x509 -req -sha256 -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt\r\n$ mkdir ..\/ssl\r\n$ cp server.key ..\/ssl\/dev.key\r\n$ cp server.crt ..\/ssl\/dev.crt\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article will show how to generate an SSL key and certificate using openssl (on CentOS 7)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev-notes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}