Generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) - Covalent Fast Start 2.3.1
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October 21, 2017 3:17 PM
Follow the instructions below to generate a CSR for your website. When you have completed generating your CSR, cut/copy and paste it into the CSR field on the SSL certificate-request page.
To Generate Key Pair and Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
- Type in the following commands to start the Covalent SSL Certificate and Key Management Tool:
cd /path to install/tools/binand./sslctl
- In the dialog box, choose Select Server Installation and click OK.
- Select the server that you want the certificate generated for.
- Select Generate Certificate and Key and click OK.
- Make sure that you have the correct server name.
- Select No for Proxy client certificate?; then click Next.
- Select 2048 as the number of bits in the key; then click Next.
- Enter your passphrase and click Next.
- Enter the requested distinguished name information for your CSR and click Next.
- Select Generate Certificate Signing Request.
- Select the server for which you wish the certificate to be created.
- Select No for Is this CSR being set to Verisign?; then click Next.
- Enter your pass phrase and click Next.
- Enter the requested information for your CSR and click Next.
- Specify where you want the CSR to be saved; then click Next. Covalent SSL will generate the CSR.
- Select Finish.
- Open the generated CSR file; then, using a plain-text editor, such as Windows Notepad, copy and paste the CSR into our online enrollment form.
NOTE: If you are requesting a Wildcard certificate, please add an asterisk (*) on the left side of the Common Name (e.g., "*.coolexample.com" or "www*.coolexample.com"). This will secure all subdomains of the Common Name.
