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Created	2006-11-03	Views	916
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NOTE: SSL Certificates require a dedicated IP address! If you are using a shared IP address or are in any doubt please contact your webhosting provider before continuing.

First login to cPanel your usual way eg www.yourdomain.com/cpanel. You should see a button or link called “SSL Manager” if you do not see this button then you will need to contact your web hosting provider and ask for advice.

If you do see this button, click it! You will then be taken to a page that has 3 buttons “Private Keys”, “Certificate Signing Requests” and “Certificates”

1. First you will need to generate a private key for the certificate so click the button called “Private Key”

    a. Scroll down the resulting page until you see “Generate a New Key” enter the host you wish to generate the Certificate for. It is important to specify the correct host as we can not change the host, cancel or issue refunds on SSL Certificates that have been issued. So with that in mind enter your host. If you want visitors to be secure as soon as they visit your site its important to enter www.yourdomain.com **NOTICE THE www.**. SSL certificates can be issued to sub domains, for example we use secure.swhosting.ie for our secure pages where our account management and order forms are located.

    b. Once you have entered the correct host (DO NOT enter http:// or https://) click the generate button

2. Next we have to generate the CSR so back to the SSL Manger page, and click on the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) button

    a. The Host drop down box should be automatically filled with the host you entered during the last step (if not something has gone wrong and you should go back and repeat step 1)

    b. Enter 'GB' in the country code, not 'UK' if you are a British company/website

    c. The rest of the fields are quite straight forward, all must be filled out.

    d. Once done click the generate button

3. Still in the Certificate Signing Request (CSR) page scroll down to where it says View and click the view button

    a. You will then see something similar to this

    -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
    MIICJDCCAY0CAQAwgasxCzAJBgNVBAYTAkdCMRUwEwYDVQQIEwxQZWVibGVzc2hp
    cmUxFDASBgNVBAcTC1dlc3QgTGludG9uMRgwFgYDVQQKEw9Gcm96ZW5XZWIuY28u
    dWsxDjAMBgNVBAsTBVNhbGVzMR8wHQYDVQQDExZzZWN1cmUuZnJvemVud2ViLmNv
    LnVrMSQwIgYJKoZIhvcNAQkBFhVqYW1lc0Bmcm96ZW53ZWIuY28udWswgZ8wDQYJ
    KoZIhvcNAQEBBQADgY0AMIGJAoGBAORHBHsKgWC6KTkJS9e9XM24TzHlgLPMtjkd
    wG1/SfNVpA+S6u4mdZuhurwMgXSd/lbCYjWIOSzTehj6pGb7FGV9SUZ82XWfTwRo
    HLk+q6ntrPJFAIef15L6qeD4Uofd+ZvXTfPX2tNnayndEVti4mAnH0uBnnP18I5/
    rrH7GsH7AgMBAAGgODAWBgkqhkiG9w0BCQcxCRMHZXdpbmczMzAeBgkqhkiG9w0B
    CQIxERMPRnJvemVuV2ViLmNvLnVrMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBAUAA4GBAIlKXFtsNuvt
    CiS18RU+Qk65nbNA4TUGvTC3s2izmRcul3UPNqKPGqTzjFJ4kXS8+aOUedC/0kv9
    ctJLasBikDX8Ht7iqshxPmWJFMqE7R5DNJ9tKqGX4dqp2AlN4VtaGNA+IW6T3sKU
    bMBwtqRRNqn3V+vBpNHiiJeTcvDCSb
    -----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

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