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

Creating a CSR for Tomcat (Apache/Jakarta)

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Creating a keystore and private key Creating a keystore and private key
To create a CSR and private key, you will need a new keystore on your server. We highly recommend creating a new keystore rather than using an existing one. If you do use an existing keystore, you may corrupt it when you attempt to create a new CSR and key within it.

To create a new keystore, key and CSR, run the following command:

keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -keystore yourdomainname.key

Entering the CSR data Entering the CSR data
While you complete these fields, we ask that you keep a few things in mind:

Country/State/City - Enter the locality information based on where your business operates, not where your server is located. Spell out all state and city information. For example, if your business operates in Texas, use "Texas" for the state, rather than "TX". If you are an international customer in a country without states or provinces, please use your country name in the state field.

Organization - Please use your full, unabbreviated legal business name including any applicable suffix, such as "Inc" or "LLC". If your company name is registered in an abbreviated form, then you may use abbreviations if you would like to do so.

Common Name - This is where you type the web address of your site. For example, www.securetrust.com and xramp.com are both acceptable. Please do not include http:// or https://.

When you have finished entering data, type "y" to confirm and enter a password. Make a note of this password - you will not be able to work with this keystore ever again if you forget the password.

Creating a CSR Creating a CSR
Now you can create the actual request:

keytool -certreq -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA -file yourdomainname.csr -keystore yourdomainname.key

Enter your company information again and refer to the previous step for the information to provide in each field. Once you are finished with the CSR, enter your keystore password.

Submit the CSR to Trustwave Submit the CSR to Trustwave
Open the CSR in a suitable text editor and copy the entire CSR to your clipboard. Please include the entire CSR; including the dashed lines at the top and bottom. You can paste the CSR text directly into the Trustwave Control Center to continue.

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