Hi,

Somebody can explain me in plain English (sorry I'm not a Guru) how the installation of a ssl certificate from Geotrust/Equifax can be done with WHM, I have try to install one and had a lot of problem: httpd server won't restart after the failed installation, after trying to reinstal I was in the obligation to edit and delete in the httpd.conf all the information about my secure domain, and only after deleting those information I was able to restart apache.

1-to be clear on what is what in the key and certificate:

SSL CERTIFICATE SIGNING REQUEST, this is the CRS that you send to CA (certificate authority), generate by my server.
Equifax Secure eBusiness Certificate, is this the CA key?
Web Server Certificate, this my certificate, generated by Equifax.


In my first installation I use the fetch function to fill the first field (Paste the entire .key file here: ) and then in the second field (Paste the entire .crt file here: ) I copied the web server certificate into this field.

I was able to go to https://secure.mydomain.com but I received an error message:'This server's certificate chain is incomplete and the signer(s) are not registered. Accept?" I assume that the browser was looking for the CA Key?

I received also at the end of the installation a error message "error 20 at 0 lookup:unable to get local issuer certificate"

Where I need to install the Equifax Secure eBusiness Certificate? And what is my secure.mydomain.com.KEY ?


Thank you for your help.;)

Originally posted by ^Phi
SSL CERTIFICATE SIGNING REQUEST, this is the CRS that you send to CA (certificate authority), generate by my server.
Equifax Secure eBusiness Certificate, is this the CA key?
Web Server Certificate, this my certificate, generated by Equifax.


Your CSR isn't your key, you should have gotten two emails when you made your CSR, the first having your CSR and your second having your key....

The key is used to produce the CSR...

Thank for your reply,

Ok CSR is not my key, I received when I create the CSR two email, one with certificate request and the other with RSA private key. I send the CSR to order my certificate.

Where I put the RSA Private key? or normally where this file is located on the server?

Now I received from Equifax an email with the Equifax Secure eBusiness Certificate and the Web Server Certificate.

And where I put Equifax Secure eBusiness Certificate and the Web Server Certificate always using WHN 4.7.

;)

Both certs go here:

/usr/share/ssl/certs

You will also have to edit httpd.conf.

If you can't figure it out, ask your distributor or data center to help you out with this. If all else fails, we will help you do it.

Hi,

Thank you to The Prohacker and kwimberl for their answer and help.

However I will try to install this certificate with WHM?

Anybody using it to install certificate?

Thank you in advance for your help.

:)