Self signed cert for multiple websites

[Stephen Partington]

https://blog.celogeek.com/201209/209/how-to-create-a-self-signed-wildcard-certificate/

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 8:39 AM, Keith Smith <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-07-04 07:53, Stephen Partington wrote:
>
>> As long as the "domain" remains the same the same cert should work.
>> Once that changes you will need a new cert.
>>
>>
>
> I will be creating multiple test sites.  Each with a unique domain such as
> mytestsite.local and anothertestsite.local, each having it's own virtual
> host and docroot.
>
> How do I create a unique cert for each domain?
>
>
>
> There is a number of questions that are asked during the cert creation.
>
> Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:
> State or Province Name (full name) [Berkshire]:
> Locality Name (eg, city) [Newbury]:
> Organization Name (eg, company) [My Company Ltd]:
> Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:
> Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:
> Email Address []:
> An optional company name []:
>
> I assume what makes each cert unique is the answer to "Common Name (eg,
> your name or your server's hostname)".  I enter the domain name not the
> FQDN or hostname of the server.
>
> Or maybe each cert is unique and by associating it with the domain and
> adding the excretion to the browser is all that is needed?????
>
> I am rather new to creating self signed certs and the above is an
> assumption.
>
> Any guidance is much appreciated.
>
> Keith
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 6:04 AM, Keith Smith
>> <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> I've configured a VM using VirtualBox and it is running CentOS 6.6.
>>>
>>> To create the self signed cert I followed 3 steps:
>>>
>>> 1) mkdir /etc/httpd/ssl
>>>
>>> 2) cd /etc/httpd/ssl
>>>
>>> 3) openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 4000 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout
>>> /etc/httpd/ssl/name-of-my-test-site.key -out
>>> /etc/httpd/ssl/name-of-my-test-site.crt
>>>
>>> I've tested the cert and it works.
>>>
>>> Now I want to add more test sites to my VM.
>>>
>>> I've done some research and am not finding any information about
>>> how to configure the self signed cert(s) for multiple sites.  From
>>> reading the docs it appears that I create one cert for the box and
>>> it will be used by all the sites on my box (test/dev VM).  Is this
>>> true or do I need to create a cert specific for each virtual host?
>>> If I need to create a cert for each virtual host, how do I do so?
>>>
>>> Thank you so much for all your help!!
>>>
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>> --
>>
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>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>>
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A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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