Step 1: Creating your Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

Creating your CSR is the first step in securing your webserver or mailserver with SSL. Your CSR is unique and contains information about your organisation and the domain you wish to secure. It must be generated on the server where your domain to be secured is hosted.

If you have direct access to your web server, follow the instructions below. If you use a hosting company, the CSR is normally generated for you by your hosting provider. Some control panels (Ensim, Plesk, CPanel) will allow you to generate your own CSR if your hosting provider has enabled that feature for you.

Web Server Software:

Vendor	Application
4D, Inc.	Webstar 4.x
Apache	ApacheSSL mod_ssl
BEA Systems	WebLogic 6.0 WebLogic 8.1
Cisco	ACS 3.2
Covalent	Apache ERS 2.4 Apache ERS 3.0
cPanel	cPanel
D. J. Bernstein	Qmail
F5	BIG-IP
IBM	Websphere MQ HTTP Server
Lotus	Domino
Microsoft	IIS 4.0 IIS 5.0 & 6.0 IIS 7.0 Exchange 2007 Exchange 2010 Outlook Web Access
Netscape	iPlanet
Netscreen	ScreenOS
NetWin	Surge mail
Nortel	SSL Accelerator
Oracle	Oracle Wallet Manager
Parallels	Plesk
Red Hat	Secure Web Server
SonicWALL	SSL Offloaders
Stronghold	Stronghold
Sun	Java Web Server 6.x Sun ONE
Sybase	AS Server w/IIS 4 AS Server w/IIS 5 EA Server
Tomcat	Tomcat
Zeus	Zeus

VeriSign

VeriSign brings trust to the Internet. Billions of times each day VeriSign helps companies and consumers all over the world to engage in trusted communications and commerce.

Thawte

Geotrust

GlobalSign

RapidSSL

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