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just change out app_name for your purposes

openssl genrsa 2048 > app_name-wildcard.key

openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -sha1 -days 3650 -key app_name-wildcard.key > app_name-wildcard.cert

# Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []:*.app_name.com

openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -text < app_name-wildcard.cert > app_name-wildcard.info

cat app_name-wildcard.cert app_name-wildcard.key > app_name-wildcard.pem

chmod 644 app_name-wildcard.key app_name-wildcard.pem

we may want to change the life of the cert via teh -days switch as well as the keysize. what we really want is to create our own CA, which is easy.

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