SSL Certificate Generate CSR for< CPPop, Stunnel/title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <style type="text/css">  </style> </head> <body> <h1>SSL Certificate CSR Generation Instructions</h1> <h1>CPPop (cPanel mail server) and other stunnel based mail servers</h1> <p>Follow these instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site. When you have completed this process, you will have a CSR ready to submit to your provider in order to be generated into a SSL Security Certificate.</p> <blockquote> <p><br /> If you use OpenSSL with your Stunnel, <a href="/support/csr/csr_apache.htm">click here to view instructions</a>. If you do not use Stunnel, follow the below instructions. </p> <p>1. Type the following command to create a CSR:</p> <blockquote> <p class="codecopy">CA.pl -newreq</p> </blockquote> <p> Note: You will be prompted for your PEM passphrase if you included the "-des3" switch in step 3. When creating a CSR you must follow these conventions:</p> <blockquote> <p>• Enter the information to be displayed in the certificate. The following characters can not be accepted: <strong>< > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ / \ ( ) ?.,&</strong> <br /> • If you are applying for a wildcard certificate you must state * in place of the sub domain, for example <strong>*.yourdomain.com</strong> instead of <strong>www.yourdomain.com</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>You will now be prompted for information to include within the CSR:</p> <table width="80%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#CCCCCC"> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="codecopy">Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:</span></td> <td><p><font color="#666666">US (must be two letter country code, note for United Kingdom the country code must be GB and NOT UK)</font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="codecopy">State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:</span></td> <td><p><font color="#666666">The state or province where your organization is legally located. This cannot be abbreviated and must be entered in full. </font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="codecopy">Locality Name (eg, city) []: </span></td> <td><p><font color="#666666">The city where your organization is legally located. </font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="codecopy">Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]: </span></td> <td><p><font color="#666666">The exact legal name of your organization. Do not abbreviate your organization name. </font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="codecopy">Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:</span></td> <td><p><font color="#666666">Section of the organization, such as Marketing or Web Development.</font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td nowrap="nowrap"><span class="codecopy">Common Name (eg, YOUR name) []: </span></td> <td><p><font color="#666666">The fully qualified domain name for your web server. This must be an exact match. If you intend to secure the URL https://www.yourdomain.com, then your CSR's common name must be www.yourdomain.com. If you applying for a wildcard certificate to secure all sub domains on your domain, the common name must be *.yourdomain.com.</font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="codecopy">Email Address []:</span></td> <td><p><font color="#666666">Leave this field blank by just pressing return.</font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><span class="codecopy">A challenge password []: </span><br /> </td> <td><p><font color="#666666">Leave this field blank by just pressing return.</font></p></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="codecopy">An optional company name []:</td> <td><p><font color="#666666">Leave this field blank by just pressing return.</font></p></td> </tr> </table> <p><br /> 2. Your CSR will now have been created. Open the newreq.pem in a text editor and copy and paste the contents into the online enrollment form when requested.</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> </body> </html>