Step-for-ssl-on-localhost

#This is just a listing of the commands for generating your SSL certificates
#Run these commands one at a time from inside your ~/ssl folder
#Make sure you create your server.csr.cnf and your v3.ext files first inside the same folder

#private key generation 
#This will ask you for a passphrase(password) do NOT lose this file or the password
openssl genrsa -des3 -out ~/ssl/rootCA.key 2048

#create root certificate
openssl req -x509 -new -nodes -key ~/ssl/rootCA.key -sha256 -days 1024 -out ~/ssl/rootCA.pem

#create the private key for the certificate (server.key)
openssl req -new -sha256 -nodes -out server.csr -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout server.key -config <(cat server.csr.cnf)

#generate server.crt
openssl x509 -req -in server.csr -CA ~/ssl/rootCA.pem -CAkey ~/ssl/rootCA.key -CAcreateserial -out server.crt -days 500 -sha256 -extfile v3.ext

#verify that you did everything right
openssl x509 -text -in server.crt -noout