Creating your own certificates for DirectAdmin

Advantage of creating your own certificates:
You can switch DirectAdmin to use SSL instead of plain text. -> https instead of http on port 2222.

If you do not have your own certificates, you’ll need to create your own:

/usr/bin/openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout /usr/local/directadmin/conf/cakey.pem -out /usr/local/directadmin/conf/cacert.pem -days 9999 -nodes

And then

chown diradmin:diradmin /usr/local/directadmin/conf/cakey.pem
chmod 400 /usr/local/directadmin/conf/cakey.pem

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