Generating SSL Certificate in DAB Appliances

If the Makefile for 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 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.