Install OpenSSL on apache (Linux)

Check if openssl is installed:
rpm -qa openssl

Create server.key
openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 2048
Create server.csr
openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr

Remove password for convenience you will be asked password for each time the service starts if the password exits.

cp server.key server.key.org
openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key

list files created from typing "ll server*"

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1054 Sep 20 07:53 server.csr

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1679 Sep 20 07:56 server.key

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1751 Sep 20 07:55 server.key.org

Create certificate

openssl x509 -req -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key -out server.crt

cp server.key /etc/httpd/conf/

cp server.crt /etc/httpd/conf/

ll /etc/httpd/conf

total 60

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 34417 Sep 20 07:41 httpd.conf

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13139 Feb 14  2012 magic

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1298 Sep 20 08:45 server.crt

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  1679 Sep 20 08:45 server.key

httpd.conf configuration

Add below at the end of the file

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NameVirtualHost *:443

SSLEngine on

SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/server.crt

SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/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"

DocumentRoot [folder path]

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※DocumentRoot is your actual folder path 

service httpd restart