This tutorial will help you install SSL certificates
Steps on installing a SSL certificate
1. Access your hosting
Log into your web hosting account (cPanel) here and enter in your username and password.
Navigate and scroll down to the Security section and click on SSL/TLS.
Or type “SSL” in the search bar.
2. Generate private key
1. Click on Generate, view, upload, or delete your private keys.
2. Select a Key Size of 2,048 bits, but if you need another one you can select it from the drop-down.
Fill in a description for the key if you’d like, then click Generate.
3. Now with your private key generated, click on Return to private keys.
4. You should see the key you created listed.
5. If you already have a private key not on the server, then under the upload a new private key section, you can either paste in your key and click on Save, or you can click on Choose file to browse your computer for the key, and then click Upload.
6. After you’ve already generated or uploaded your private key so it exists on the server, click on Return to SSL manager.
3. Generate CSR (Certificate Signing Request)
1. Click on Generate, view, or delete SSL certificate signing requests.
2. Fill out all of the fields about the business/website, then click Generate.
3. You should now see the generated CSR, you can click in the text-box and then select all text and copy it.
4. Now you need to take this CSR text generated from the hosting, and when you are purchasing a SSL certificate, the certificate authority that you buy it from will need to be supplied with it.
5. When asked what server type your CSR was generated on, you want to select “WHM/cPanel“.
4. Self-signed SSL certificate
Click on Generate, view, upload, or delete SSL certificates.
Scroll down to the generate a new certificate section and fill out all of the details for your self-signed SSL certificate, click Generate.
On the next page, click in the encoded certificate text-box and copy all of the text.
5. 3rd party SSL certificate
Click on Generate, view, upload, or delete SSL certificates.
Now either paste your certificate info into the paste your certificate below box and click Save certificate, or click Choose file to browse your local computer for the certificate file and click Upload certificate.
6. Activate SSL certificate
Click on Manage SSL sites.
From the domain drop-down, select the domain you’re installing your SSL certificate on, and then click Autofill by domain.
In this case you can see it’s warning us that the issuer is self-signed which is fine and you don’t need to worry about it. Click on Install certificate. You should see a pop-up saying the SSL was successfully configured, then just click Ok.
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