Installing your SSL Certificate / Web Server Certificate
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Firstly when your issuance email arrives you will have
your web server certificate in the email.
Copy your web server certificate into a text editor
such as notepad and save as yourdomain.txt.
- Open the IBM Key Management utility
- Select Key Database File from the main User
Interface, select Open.
- In the Open dialog box, select your key database
name. Click OK.
- In the Password Prompt dialog box enter your
password and click OK.
- In the Key Management panel, go
to the pull-down menu and select Personal Certificates.
Since your new web server certificate is now a text
file, select Base64-ASCII encoded data type
and change the "*.arm" type to "*.txt"
file type. Hit the Receive button and select
your web server certificate file. This certificate
should immediately show up in the list of Personal
Certificates. You can View/Edit to verify
your certificate
- Add the desired/required modules to complete your
server configuration, including setting up SSL Port
443
- Check your httpd.conf configuration to verify
the path to the appropriate key file ("key.db")
- Stop, and then Start your IBM HTTP Server.
Test your certificate by connecting to your
server.
Use the https protocol directive (e.g. https://your
server/) to indicate you wish to use secure HTTP.
Note: The padlock icon on your Web browser will
be displayed in the locked position if you have set
up your site properly.