Seneca BBB landing page and SSL Certificates on Ubuntu 10.04

Now that the landing page / application of BBB in Seneca is ready to be tested, I need to install a self signed SSL certificate to be able to test it securely. I haven't done any linux admin before but, So far installing a certificate in Ubuntu seems to be pretty easy. Now I need to learn about nginx / tomcat and see how can I set them up so they can use the certificate and protect the login page behind https protocol...