Walk me through creating a self-signed certificate?

[gschoppe]

I vaguely remember a relatively simple process of creating an SSL certificate that involved a setup utility that asked questions about my business... but I cannot find the commands anymore.

[pepedog]

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LAMP#SSL

[grayman4hire]

For NGINX

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#Configure SSL
#http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule

#create folder to store certs
mkdir -p /etc/nginx/certs
cd /etc/nginx/certs

#Now create the server private key, you'll be asked for a passphrase:
openssl genrsa -des3 -out pogoplug.key 1024

#Create the Certificate Signing Request (CSR):
openssl req -new -key pogoplug.key -out pogoplug.csr

#Remove the necessity of entering a passphrase for starting up nginx with SSL using the above private key:
cp pogoplug.key pogoplug.key.org

openssl rsa -in pogoplug.key.org -out pogoplug.key

#Finally sign the certificate using the above private key and CSR:
openssl x509 -req -days 3650 -in pogoplug.csr -signkey pogoplug.key -out pogoplug.crt')