Creating a CSR

Source: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/generate-a-csr-with-openssl

I created a private key:

openssl genrsa -out ~/domain.com.ssl/domain.com.key 2048

Then created the CSR and followed the prompts:

You may want to try:

openssl req -new -sha256 -key ~/domain.com.ssl/domain.com.key -out ~/domain.com.ssl/domain.com.csr

Otherwise:

openssl req -new -key ~/domain.com.ssl/domain.com.key -out ~/domain.com.ssl/domain.com.csr

Then I skipped the key generating on my Certificate Authority provider’s page, and pasted the CSR contents and continued.

I then got back a certificate I could use.