Renew expired self-signed SSL certificate

For some reason, it might be very difficult to find information on how to renew a self-signed certificate. This is a nice (and short) explanation: http://linux.togaware.com/survivor/Renew_SSL.html.

Please note that a .pem file is in fact (as you can guess from the small guide) a combined .key and .crt.

In short and only for the purpose of not loosing this reference (as has happened many times before with sites referenced on this blog), here is the procedure (just adapt to your case):

  # cd /etc/apache2/ssl
  # openssl genrsa -out togaware.com.key 1024
  # chmod 600 togaware.com.key
  # openssl req -new -key togaware.com.key -out togaware.com.csr
    AU
    ACT
    Canberra
    Togaware
    Data Mining
    Kayon Toga
    Kayon.Toga@togaware.com
    (no challenge password)
  # openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in togaware.com.csr \
            -signkey togaware.com.key -out togaware.com.crt
  # mv apache.pem apache.pem.old
  # cp togaware.com.key apache.pem
  # cat togaware.com.crt >> apache.pem
  # chmod 600 apache.pem
  # wajig restart apache2

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