SSL Certificate Installation Instructions

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Firstly when your issuance email arrives it will contain your web server certificate. Copy your web server certificate into a text editor such as notepad including the header and footer. You should then have a text file that looks like:

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
[encoded data]
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

Make sure you have 5 dashes to either side of the BEGIN CERTIFICATE and END CERTIFICATE and that no white space, extra line breaks or additional characters have been inadvertently added. Save the certificate as yourdomain.txt.

  1. Open your control panel home page
  2. Click SSL on your control panel home page.
  3. Click the Edit icon in the SSL field on the Web Services page.
  4. Enter the yourdomain.txt file into the box named Install Certificate based on previously generated Certificate request and click Upload.

    Install your Certificate by entering the certificate in text based format into this box

Test your certificate by using a browser to connect to your server. Use the https protocol directive (e.g. https://your server/) to indicate you wish to use secure HTTP. The padlock icon on your browser will be displayed in the locked position if your certificates are installed correctly and the server is properly configured for SSL.