One of the biggest obstacles faced by new entrepreneurs is creating a name and getting it out into the public to attract customers. That used to involve researching a company name, listing it with authorities to make sure one no one else was using it and getting it into the phone book or print advertising for people to see. Today’s entrepreneur has to take a completely different approach – getting his name on the internet with a domain registration. In order to build a successful online business you need a…

SSL Certificate is used to convert your website from http:// to https://. The protocol was created by Netscape to ensure secure transactions between web servers and browsers. It uses a third party, a Certificate Authority (CA), to identify one end or both end of the transactions. In this article, we explain how to generate private key file (server.key), certificate signing request file (server.csr) and webserver certificate file (server.crt) that can be used on Apache server with mod_ssl. For the sake of example we will be using www.my-server.org as our domain.