Create self signed SSL Certificate on Debian 8 Jessie

Generating RSA private key

openssl req -x509 -nodes -sha256 -days 3650 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout siddou.tk.key -out siddou.tk.crt

Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:FR
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:IDF
Locality Name (eg, city) []:Paris
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:siddou   
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:siddou
Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:*.siddou.tk          
Email Address []:admin@siddou.tk

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:

Example: add in apache

SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/siddou.tk.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/siddou.tk.key

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