SSLGenie : HSphere

Solution

Please follow this instruction if you have already purchased a certificate directly from SSLGenie and need to install it through H-Sphere. If you want to buy and install SSLGenie certificate in one step directly from H-Sphere, refer to H-Sphere documentation.

Before installing existing certificate in H-Sphere, make sure you :

• Have yourCSR and private key copied and stored.
• Go toSSLGenie CA and get a new certificate. When requested, enter the CSR signing request that you have saved.
  
  Important : When obtaining SSL certificate, make sure it is generated for Apache regardless of whether you intend to install it on Winbox or Unix box.
• After the permanent SSL Certificate has been generated, save it to a secure location.
  
  You will need the site/server certificate and the intermediate CA certificate, downloadable from the support website.

• Click SSL on your user Control Panel home page.
• Go to the Web Service page and click the Import SSL Certificate link in the SSL field.
• Enter the certificate you received from SSLGenie into the upper Install Certificate based on previously generated Certificate request box of the form :
  
  
• Click Upload.
• Enter yourIntermediate CA certificate into the Certificate Authority File box (for H-Sphere 2.5. Patch 6+) :
  
  
• Click Install.
• Now you can use the certificate jonitlywith the private key you have saved.