Generate and Configure Self-Signed SSL Certificate on Nginx

INTRODUCTION NGINX NGINX, an open source, high-performance HTTP server,  reverse proxy, and IMAP/POP3 proxy server, has gained popularity as a load balancer. OpenSSL OpenSSL is a general purpose cryptography library that provides an open source implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocols. OpenSSL used to generate self-signed certificates which can be used for testing purposes or internal usage. The first step is to create your RSA Private Key. This key is a 1024 bit …