Generation of SSL certificates bought by Godaddy
quick and easy
Just wanted to say that I'm quite satisfied with Godaddy's SSL
certificate generation.
SSL certs generation with Godaddy is dramatically more easy and
intuitive than with certs bought from Enom.com.
To generate a new certificate with Godaddy, login to your godaddy
account, press
My Account -> SSL Certificates
Godaddy does grant you new credits whenever you have purchased a
new ssl certificate for them, 1 credit is equal to one
certificate.
You later use this credit to get your SSL certificate which will
appear in the list of ssl certificates.
To manage the new certificate I had to press over
Manage
Certificate
Next over 3 steps it's necessery to place a newly generated CSR
file to generate the CSR file I issued:
debian:~# /usr/bin/openssl req -new -key
/home/hipo/www.domain.com.key -out
/home/hipo/www.domain.com.csr
There is a field which requires you to paste in the newly generates
csr file with the above command in Godaddy's SSL generation step
2.
Step 3 does not require anything special.
After this steps if the domain for which an SSL cert is generated
doesn't contain some specific banned words which prohibits
automatic approval of a certificate an email is received in the
email set for the godaddy account.
After Godaddy approves the generation of the respective ssl cert it
starts appearing in the menu:
Manage Certificates ->
Certificates tick over to choose the
common name of your
certificate and a button a bit above with a green down arrow will
turn green.
Press over it and you will be offered a menu whether you can choose
the version of the webserver for which you will need the newly
generated SSL certificate to install on.
In my case it was Apache so I choose Apache, gt the certificate put
it and install it to apache and restart Apache and you're
done.
For some more thorough
instructions on how to install a SSL certificate I recommend you to
check my previous article here