SSL Certificates

CSR Instructions - O'Reilly WebSite Pro.

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 eWAY in order to be generated into a SSL Security Certificate.

OpenSSL is the open source project that replaced SSLeay. If you are using SSLeay on your system instead of OpenSSL, substitute ssleay with openssl for the commands.

  1. Open the Server Properties console.

  2. Select KEY RING tab.

    Select KEY RING tab

  3. Click on New Key Pair to open the Certificate Wizard, then enter your web site information in the forms provided:

    Click Next to begin the Wizard (note the following Wizard graphics may differ depending on your version).

    Click Next to begin the Wizard

    Select your Common Name (CN) from the drop down menu. You can only select websites that you have previously configured.

    Select your Common Name (CN)

    Enter you Organization Name and your Department Name.

    Enter you Organization Name and your Department Name

    Enter your City, State and Country. Do not abbreviate your state.

    Enter your City, State and Country

    Enter the name of your administrator / applicant and email address.

    Enter the name of your administrator / applicant and email address

    Name your Certificate Signing Request file and save it to disk.

    Name your Certificate Signing Request file and save it to disk

    Click Next to generate the cryptographic keys to be used by your webserver.

    Click Next to generate the cryptographic keys

    Click Done to complete the wizard. Note: Do not click Click here to choose a Certificate Authority.

    Click Done to complete the wizard

    You will now see that you have a Key (displaying a question mark) in the Key Ring. This indicates that you have a pending request, waiting to be completed with an issued SSL certificate.

    You will now see that you have a Key (displaying a question mark) in the Key Ring

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