Self Signed SSL Certificates

To create a Self Signed SSL Certificate:

openssl req -x509 -nodes -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout \
 /etc/ssl/private/yourcert.key \
 -out /etc/ssl/private/yourcert.pem

This creates a 1024 bit Encrypted certificate, and saves it as /etc/ssl/private/yourcert.pem

RedHat/Fedora

In RedHat based distros generating SSL certs is simplified.

To generate a server key:

make genkey

To generate certificate request:

make certreq

Once you have a Certificate Request (.csr) you can go to CACert.org to have a Signed Certificate created.