CA（如Verisign 或 Thawte）签署证书。

签发证书的问题：如果使用的是商业证书，具体的签署方法请查看相关销售商的说明；如果是知己签发的证书，可以使用openssl自带的CA.sh脚本工具。
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如果不为单独的客户端签发证书，客户端证书可以不用生成，客户端与服务器端使用相同的证书。
(1) conf/ssl.conf 配置文件中的主要参数配置如下：

Listen 443
SSLPassPhraseDialog buildin
#SSLPassPhraseDialog exec:/path/to/program
SSLSessionCache dbm:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_scache
SSLSessionCacheTimeout 300
SSLMutex file:/usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_mutex

<VirtualHost _default_:443>

# General setup for the virtual host
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/apache2/htdocs"
ServerName www.example.com:443
ServerAdmin you@example.com
ErrorLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log
TransferLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log

SSLEngine on
SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL

SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.key
CustomLog /usr/local/apache2/logs/ssl_request_log "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x "%r" %b"

</VirtualHost>

(2) 创建和使用自签署的证书：
a.Create a RSA private key for your Apache server
/usr/local/openssl/bin/openssl genrsa -des3 -out /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.key 1024

b. Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
/usr/local/openssl/bin/openssl req -new -key /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.key -out /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.csr

c. Create a self-signed CA Certificate (X509 structure) with the RSA key of the CA
/usr/local/openssl/bin/openssl req -x509 -days 365 -key /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.key -in /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/server.csr -out /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt

/usr/local/openssl/bin/openssl genrsa 1024 -out server.key
/usr/local/openssl/bin/openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
/usr/local/openssl/bin/openssl req -x509 -days 365 -key server.key -in server.csr -out server.crt

(3) 创建自己的CA（认证证书），并使用该CA来签署服务器的证书。
mkdir /CA
cd /CA
cp openssl-0.9.7g/apps/CA.sh /CA
./CA.sh -newca
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
cp server.csr newreq.pem
./CA.sh -sign
cp newcert.pem /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
cp server.key /usr/local/apache2/conf/ssl.key/