SSL Certificate Installation SSL Certificate Installation (SSL) SSL CERTIFICATE FOR THE SERVER Create your server's original SSL Certificate. If you use your server as a business, it had better buy and use a Formal Certificate from Verisign and so on. This involves 2 steps : SSL Certificate Creation and Httpd configuration. Step 1 : SSL Cert Creation : Here are some steps shown by means of pictures you can run those commands to install self signed certificate on your server - Run, # cd /etc/pki/tls/certs Then use, # make server2.key Then enter any password that it will prompt for. Next use this command, # openssl rsa -in server2.key -out server2.key Then again it will ask for some password again reenter it. Then use, # make server2.csr This will then generate the Certificate Signing Reqest. Then it will ask you some information like Country Name, State, City etc.