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How to setup your own CA with OpenSSL

For educational reasons I've decided to create my own CA. Here is what I learned.

First things first

Lets get some context first.

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Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

Purchasing a Comodo PositiveSSL cert via gogetssl.com and installing it on an Nginx server.

Purchase the cert

Prior to purchasing a cert, you need to generate a private key, and a CSR file

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@Configuration
public class MultiConnectionSupport {
    @Value("${server.port}")
    private int serverPort;

    @Value("${server.http.port}")
    private int httpServerPort;

    @Bean
    public EmbeddedServletContainerFactory servletContainer() {

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location /alias-name {
   alias  /data/path-alias-name;

      location ~ \.php$ {
          fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)?$;
          fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
          #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
          include fastcgi_params;

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openssl rand -base64 6

openssl rand -hex 4

openssl rand -base64 8 | md5 | head -c8;echo

openssl rand -base64 6

ping -c 1 yahoo.com |md5 | head -c8; echo