SSL Certificate Support: Creating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

Creating a CSR for Apache on Linux/Unix

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Generating a CSR and private key Generating a CSR and private key
Please SSH or Telnet into your webserver.
Generate a private key and a public Certificate Signing Request (CSR) by using the following command:

openssl req -new -nodes -keyout myserver.key -out server.csr

This creates a two files. The file myserver.key is the private key - carefully protect this private key. In particular, be sure to backup the private key, as there is no means to recover it should it be lost. The private key is integral in the SSL process.
Entering data for the CSR Entering data for the CSR

You will now be asked to enter data for your CSR. Please enter your company's location information into the country, state, and locality fields.

If you are an international customer in a country which does not have states, you may use your country name in the state field.

Please spell out all state and city names. For example, if your company is in Texas, please use "Texas" rather than "TX".

When you arrive at the step which asks for your organization's name, please use your company's full name, including any suffixes such as "Inc" or "LLC". You may specify a company department, or simply "Web" in the organizational unit field.

For the common name, this is where you enter the full web address of your site. For example, www.trustwave.com and Trustwave.com are acceptable while http://www.trustwave.com is not. If your certificate is for an intranet server, you may use the name of the server on your internal network. When ordering a Wildcard SSL Certificate use *.Trustwave.com.

You will now have the opportunity to set a password for the private key. If you do choose to set a password, your private key will be useless if you forget the password. In addition, you will be required to provide this password to Apache each time it starts.

Submit the CSR to Trustwave Submit the CSR to Trustwave
Now that your CSR is ready, you can copy and paste the contents of the CSR file into the Trustwave Control Center and proceed with your certificate enrollment.

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