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Step 1: Enter Organizational Information
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If you already have a key and certificate, you can skip this step and proceed to step 2. |
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Common name | The name entered in the "CN" (common name) field of the CSR MUST be the fully-qualified domain name for the website you will be using the certificate for (e.g. powerfolder.example.com). Do not include the "http://" or "https://" prefixes in your common name. Do NOT enter your personal name in this field. It is the hostname to which clients connect to when using the web interface or one of the PowerFolder Clients. It should match the hostname which was defined in the General server settings during the PowerFolder Server Configuration. |
Organization | The name under which your business is legally registered. The listed organization must be the legal registrant of the domain name in the certificate request. |
Organizational Unit | The department within your organization which requests the certificate. If not applicaple, use something like Accounting or IT. |
City/Locality | Name of the city in which your organization is registered/located. Please spell out the name of the city. Do not abbreviate. |
State/Province | Name of state, province, region, territory where your organization is located. Please enter the full name. Do not abbreviate. |
Country code | The two-letter International Organization for Standardization (ISO-) format country code for the country in which your organization is legally registered. |
Step 2: Generate/Import Private Key
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If you already have a key and certificate, you can import it here. Please note that the key has to be in a base64-encoded format for Apache web servers. If you used a .pfx file or other format, please refer to one of the sites below to see how to convert them: http://www.entrust.net/knowledge-base/technote.cfm?tn=7924 |
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When finished, please click on Next.
Step 3: Request Certificate Signing Request (CSR)
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If you already have a key and certificate, you can skip this step and proceed to step 4. |
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Usually a certificate is issued in no time (when having all information from the previous steps available and using an instant payment method for buying the certificate), therefore you can click on Next when finished. As an alternative the wizard can also be closed at this point, it will save all information entered before.
Step 4: Import Signed Certificate
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If you already have a key and certificate, you can import it here. Please note that the certificate has to be in a base64-encoded format for Apache web servers. If you used a .pfx file or other format, please refer to one of the sites below to see how to convert them: http://www.entrust.net/knowledge-base/technote.cfm?tn=7924 |
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When finished, click on Next. After all steps are performed successfully, the web interface should be available on the port configured under Preferences > Network > Hostname and Ports.
Step 5: Check the SSL connection
When step 1-4 are finished and SSL is up and working, please perform a final check on the web interface using the Comodo SSL Analyzer to verify that everything is OK.