Generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR): Difference between revisions

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Please visit this site: https://csrgenerator.bravenet.com to generate a certificate signing request (CSR) with a 2048-bit key for your domain within Bravenet. Make sure to enter a Common Name that includes www. (for example: www.myawesomesite.com) and a 2-letter Country code (so, for Canada you would use: CA).

Alternatively, follow these instructions:

Open up your servers SSH terminal. For information on how to access your account via SSH, please click here.

Once you have a terminal window/prompt open; please type in the following command:

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout yourdomain.key -out yourdomain.csr

 Replace yourdomain with the domain name you're securing. For example, if your domain name is myawesomesite.com, you would type myawesomesite.key and myawesomesite.csr.

Enter the requested information:
- Common Name: The fully-qualified domain name, or URL, you're securing.
  If you are requesting a Wildcard certificate, add an asterisk (*) to the left of the common name where you want the wildcard, for example *.myawesomesite.com.
- Organization: The legally-registered name for your business. If you are enrolling as an individual, enter the certificate requestor's name.
- Organization Unit: If applicable, enter the DBA (doing business as) name.
- City or Locality: Name of the city where your organization is registered/located. Do not abbreviate.
- State or Province: Name of the state or province where your organization is located. Do not abbreviate.
- Country: The two-letter International Organization for Standardization (ISO) format country code for where your organization is legally registered.
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If you do not want to enter a password for this SSL, you can leave the Passphrase field blank. However, please understand there might be additional risks.
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Open the CSR in a text editor and copy/paste all contents of the CSR into the required fields of your SSL's CA (Certificate Authority) to generate a SSL certificate.

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-Please follow these instructions to generate a certificate signing request (CSR) for your domain within Bravenet.
+Please visit this site: https://csrgenerator.bravenet.com to generate a certificate signing request (CSR) with a 2048-bit key for your domain within Bravenet. Make sure to enter a Common Name that includes www. (for example: www.myawesomesite.com) and a 2-letter Country code (so, for Canada you would use: CA).
+'''Alternatively, follow these instructions''':
 # Open up your servers SSH terminal. For information on how to access your account via SSH, please click [http://wiki.bravenet.com/SSH here].
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 #: <pre style="background: #cce6ff; word-break:break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Replace yourdomain with the domain name you're securing. For example, if your domain name is myawesomesite.com, you would type myawesomesite.key and myawesomesite.csr.</pre>
 # Enter the requested information:
-#* Common Name: The fully-qualified domain name, or URL, you're securing. <br> If you are requesting a Wildcard certificate, add an asterisk (*) to the left of the common name where you want the wildcard, for example *.myawesomesite.com.
+#* '''Common Name''': The fully-qualified domain name, or URL, you're securing. <br> If you are requesting a Wildcard certificate, add an asterisk (*) to the left of the common name where you want the wildcard, for example *.myawesomesite.com.
-#* Organization: The legally-registered name for your business. If you are enrolling as an individual, enter the certificate requestor's name.
+#* '''Organization''': The legally-registered name for your business. If you are enrolling as an individual, enter the certificate requestor's name.
-#* Organization Unit: If applicable, enter the DBA (doing business as) name.
+#* '''Organization Unit''': If applicable, enter the DBA (doing business as) name.
-#* City or Locality: Name of the city where your organization is registered/located. Do not abbreviate.
+#* '''City or Locality''': Name of the city where your organization is registered/located. Do not abbreviate.
-#* State or Province: Name of the state or province where your organization is located. Do not abbreviate.
+#* '''State or Province''': Name of the state or province where your organization is located. Do not abbreviate.
-#* Country: The two-letter International Organization for Standardization (ISO) format country code for where your organization is legally registered.
+#* '''Country''': The two-letter International Organization for Standardization (ISO) format country code for where your organization is legally registered.
 #: <pre style="word-break:break-word; background: #cce6ff; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you do not want to enter a password for this SSL, you can leave the Passphrase field blank. However, please understand there might be additional risks.</pre>
 # Open the CSR in a text editor and copy/paste all contents of the CSR into the required fields of your SSL's CA (Certificate Authority) to generate a SSL certificate.
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