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== Create Self-Signed Certificate ==
== Create Self-Signed Certificate ==
This is basically an adapted version of what has been documented previously by [http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Apache/apache-SSL.html Van Emery], if well worth checking out.  
This is basically an adapted version of what has been documented previously by [http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Apache/apache-SSL.html Van Emery], if well worth checking out.
 
If you already have a Certificate Authority (because you're created self-signed keys before) then don't create another unless you really need to.
 
Similarly, if you have already created a server key for your server, and you just need another certificate for a another site being hosted on the server, start from the ''Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for the website'' part of the procedure''.


# '''Create private (self generated) Certificate Authority (CA) key and certificate for you/your organisation'''
# '''Create private (self generated) Certificate Authority (CA) key and certificate for you/your organisation'''