Setup apache with a self-signed SSL/TLS-certificate

WroDos-MacBook-Air:Zertifikate fuer SSL heiko$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
Generating RSA private key, 1024 bit long modulus
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e is 65537 (0x10001)
Enter pass phrase for server.key:
Verifying - Enter pass phrase for server.key:
WroDos-MacBook-Air:Zertifikate fuer SSL heiko$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
Enter pass phrase for server.key:
You are about to be asked to enter information that will be incorporated
into your certificate request.
What you are about to enter is what is called a Distinguished Name or a DN.
There are quite a few fields but you can leave some blank
For some fields there will be a default value,
If you enter '.', the field will be left blank.
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Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:DE
State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:BW
Locality Name (eg, city) []:Offenburg
Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Wurst-Wasser.net
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:IT
Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:www.wurst-wasser.net
Email Address []:usenet at wurst-wasser.net

Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
to be sent with your certificate request
A challenge password []:
An optional company name []:
WroDos-MacBook-Air:Zertifikate fuer SSL heiko$ mv server.key server.key.secured_with_passphrase
WroDos-MacBook-Air:Zertifikate fuer SSL heiko$ openssl rsa -in server.key.secured_with_passphrase -out server.key
Enter pass phrase for server.key.secured_with_passphrase:
writing RSA key
WroDos-MacBook-Air:Zertifikate fuer SSL heiko$ openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt
Signature ok
subject=/C=DE/ST=BW/L=Offenburg/O=Wurst-Wasser.net/OU=IT/CN=www.wurst-wasser.net/emailAddress=usenet at wurst-wasser.net
Getting Private key
WroDos-MacBook-Air:Zertifikate fuer SSL heiko$ 

Now, make sure, mod_ssl is installed and install the certificates:

cp server.crt /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt
cp server.key /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key

And setup SSL:

SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /usr/local/apache/conf/ssl.key/server.key
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log \
  "%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

Then restart apache

apachectl restart

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