D.2 Generating a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Testing Purposes

You can use the YaST CA Management plug-in or OpenSSL tools to create a self-signed certificate. If iFolder is deployed in a trusted environment, use YaST. The YaST CA Management interface contains modules for the basic management of X.509 certificates. This mainly involves the creation of CAs, sub-CAs, and their certificates. For more information, see the following:

For detailed information about how to generate a certificates, see Creating a Self-Signed Certificate in the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Administration Guide.

For information about configuring Apache to point to the self-signed certificate, see the following: