TLS and SSL are secure protocols and have been developed to put normal traffic in a protected, encrypted wrapper. With the help of these protocols, traffic can be sent between remote users in an encrypted format, thus protecting the traffic from being intercepted and read by anyone else. These certificates form an essential component of the data encryption process and help in making internet transactions secure.
Before we start with the creation and configuration of the self-signed certificate, we require Apache server to be installed on our Ubuntu system.
To install Apache on Ubuntu, run the following command:
apt-get update apt-get install apache2
In this section, we will learn how to create a self-signed certificate to encrypt traffic to our Apache server:
- Once our Apache server has been installed, we can check the default web page by visiting the
http://localhost
link on our browser:
- However, when we try to access the same page...