Sunday, September 28, 2008

SSL Set Up

Request CSR from your hosting company

You will need this to manage your SSL. Your hosting company may charge you to generate one and could take a while in responding to your request or you may be able to generate one for free from your control panel with the click of a button.

Update Domain Records

Update your domain name information to match the information you submitted for your CSR.

Free SSL for Testing & Development

http://www.rapidssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-ssl/freessl.htm

http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-products/free-ssl-certificate.html

Buy SSL

from network solutions, thwate, verisign, or geotrust

Login and Manage SSL

 

Send verification information requested by SSL provider

Network Solutions

Wait for them to send you an email with the information that you need to provide them with.

Contact their verification department directly at 877-228-1023 if you have any questions.

OK the SSL & Receive The SSL Files

 

Send SSL files to hosting company to install

The SSL cert will be installed in a directory on your server along with the chaining certificate if applicable.

They will also install the key they generated.

They will then add certain statements known as directives to your Apache configure files. These tell Apache that the site has SSL encryption certification.

set up guides

networksolutions ssl set up guide

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