View source for Generating SSL Certificate in DAB Appliances

If the '''Makefile''' for [[Debian Appliance Builder|DAB]] has:
 dab install apache2-mpm-prefork apache2
then all SSL related files will have been installed like the '''ssl-cert''' package which now has the [http://man.he.net/man8/make-ssl-cert make-ssl-cert] program.

One such easy and simple method using a console TextGUI is shown below:
 make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/apache2/ssl/apache.pem 

Another method using a Private/Public Key pair is achieved by:
 cd /etc/ssl/private
 openssl genrsa 1024 > mysite.pem
 cd /etc/ssl/certs
 openssl req -new -key ../private/mysite.pem -x509 -days 9999 -out mysite.pem
 /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

To regenerate the existing template SSL keys, another method is:
 make-ssl-cert generate-default-snakeoil --force-overwrite
The snakeoil files in the '''/etc/ssl/certs/''' and '''/etc/ssl/private''' folders get re-genertaed with the above command.