How to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
June 23, 2008 – 9:07 amOk, I can never remember how to do these off the top of my head, so what better way to keep track of how to do it than to drop it into our blog.
This only applies to Linux servers.
This won’t mean much to anyone who isn’t a server administrator, so you can stop reading now, but this is how to generate a CSR.
As root:
Change to your home directory ~/
Then mkdir (domain name) and cd /newfolder. Inside your new folder, issue the following commands:
Openssl genrsa –des3 –out domainname.co.uk.key 1024
Openssl req –new –key domainname.co.uk.key –out domainname.co.uk.csr
That’s it.
