seting up SSL After instal

**wolf99** · 7 Oct 2006, 05:16 PM

can anyone let me know how to set up SSL?

have used CPanel to generate: Private KEY, Certificate Signing Request and a Certificate. But Haven't a clue what to do with them or where to start in admin

**DrByte** · 7 Oct 2006, 05:37 PM

Installing your new certificate is something that your hosting company typically needs to do for you.

**Vger** · 11 Oct 2006, 01:38 AM

If you have used cPanel to generate its own ssl certificate then this is what is called a 'Self Signed' certificate. It is Issued to and By your domain - which means that it is not a 'Trusted' certificate. For a certificate to be Trusted it has to be issued To your domain but issued By a Trusted Provider of ssl certificates - like Geotrust, GoDaddy etc.

You can use the cert you have created for testing a site, but you wouldn't want to use it for a live website. To use it you need simply to enable ssl in both of the configure.php files.

To get a Trusted ssl certificate then you need to take the code from the CSR to a Trusted Provider and use that to buy a certificate which you then Import to overwrite the self-signed certificate. After this either the Apache or Windows service needs to be restarted for the install to be completed.

Vger