In order to get a valid SSL certificate, you will need to generate a CSR that a certificate signing authority (such as Verisign or Thawte) will request. You have to determine the URL for the secured web site – this should be a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN), i.e. if you want to access your secured website through https://www.example.com/, then the FQDN of your website is www.example.com
Select a few large and relatively random files on your server – compressed log files are a good start. These will act as your random seed enhancers. We refer to these as file1:file2:…:file5 below. Generate a key with the following command:

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