How to run/configure the Certificate Services

[Maaz]

Dear Gurus

OS: rhel 4.0
Webserver: Apache

I m running a website for my local network.
I want to issue a Digital Certificate to my website, so that client-server communication will be encrypted, or in other words I'll provide all the benefits of ssl to my clients.
and I Dont have money to pay to any CA....
thats why I want to configure my own/personal/local Certificate server/CA, so that I can issue certificate to my clients(webservers).

How to configure/create CA/Certificate Server ?
How to request the Certificate Server to issue the certificate to a client(webserver/website) ?
How to install and configure the Certificate issued by the CA/Certificate Server, into the Apache ?

Any Tutorial, any Step-by-Step Guide

Thanks n Regards
Maaz

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

I'm posting a script that helps automate the process of generating your own certificate.

At the very least, it has the steps and lets ssl https work somewhat correctly.

http://www.hpux.ws/ssl.gen

It needs one parameter, the name of the certificate.

It does have ssl /etc/ file dependencies but it should be easy to figure out.

I wrote it because I found the ssl.org documentation ponderous to follow. It was accurate, but I wasn't sure I would remember how to use those docs based on the frequency that I generate certificates.

SEP

[Arunvijai_4]

You need to configure CA (Certificate Authority) in your server. Take a look at this doc, http://sapiens.wustl.edu/~sysmain/info/openssl/

-Arun

[Ivan Ferreira]

It's easy, and step-by-step:


http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-32602.html

http://www.brennan.id.au/13-Apache_Web_Server.html

[Maaz]

Thanks All

Regards
Maaz