SSL Certificates

Installation Instructions - Bea WebLogic 5.1

Your certificate will be sent to you by email. The email message includes the web server certificate that you purchased in the body of the email message.

Copy the certificate from the body of the email and paste it into a text editor (such as notepad) to create text files.

Install your web server certificate:
  1. Copy the certificate from the body of the email and paste it into a text editor (such as notepad) to store the file in your server directory - name the file as domainname-certificate.pem
  2. Also store the root certificate in your server directory. This is our Trusted Root Certificate.
Update WebLogic properties file:
  1. Open the "weblogic.properties" file in your favorite text editor This file is located in the server's root directory
  2. Edit the following directives contained within the "weblogic.properies" file, under Server certificates for SSL:
    weblogic.system.SSLListenPort=443
    weblogic.security.ssl.enable=true
    weblogic.security.certificate.server=domainname-certificate.pem
    weblogic.security.key.server=domainname-key.der
    weblogic.security.certificate.authority=freesslca.pem
  3. Start, or restart, your WebLogic Server.

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