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| Generate a Certificate Signing
Request — CSR |
Follow these instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site. When you have completed this process, click the
Close button above to close this window and continue to the next step.
- Open O’Reilly Server Properties. This is located within the Website Professional tool bar under Programs.
- Select the Key Ring tab.
- Select New Key Pair and click OK.
- The New Key Pair Wizard opens displaying the Generate New Key Pair
option and click Next.
- When creating a CSR you must follow these conventions.
Type the Distinguished Name Field information.
The following characters cannot be accepted: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / \ ( ) ? . , &
Distinguished
Name Field |
Explanation |
Example |
| Common Name |
The fully
qualified domain name for your web server. This must be an
exact match. |
If you intend
to secure the URL https://www.supralink.com/,
then your CSR's common name
must be www.supralink.com. |
| Organization |
The exact
legal name of your organization. Do not abbreviate your
organization name. |
SupraLink |
| Organization
Unit |
Section of
the organization. |
Marketing |
| City or
Locality |
The
city where your organization is legally located. |
Montréal |
| State or
Province |
The state or
province where your organization is legally located.
Cannot be abbreviated. |
Quebec |
| Country |
The
two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country. |
CA |
- The Requestor Information dialog box opens, you will
have to complete the
Requestor’s Name and
Requestor’s email, then click on Next.
- The Request Disposition dialog box opens, you will have
to specify the file for the request: Type a file name and click on
Save As.
Select a file location.
The default selection will be called cert-request and
will be located within the \Website\Admin directory. Then click on
Next.
- The Generate Key Pair and Request dialog box opens. Click
on Next.
- The Web Site New Key Wizard dialog box opens. Type random characters into the text box.
- The Congratulations dialog box opens. Then click on Done.
- The Web Server Properties dialog box opens. You will notice that the key ring has a question mark.
Then click on Close.
- To find your Certificate Signing Request, go to the location that you specified in the Request Disposition screen. If you did not specify a location, the file will be located in the \Website directory.
- Be sure and back up the new key pair you generated. It will be located within the
\Website\Admin directory and will be called website.key
- Submit your CSR to SupraLink - you will be asked to
complete the agreement and the enrollment form as well.
Innovating Information Security
SupraLink, in partnership with GeoTrust, the leading provider of next
generation information security services, delivers secure e-commerce
transactions, identity verification and authentication solutions to
the global web community. SupraLink ensures a new level of
e-business security — your first step toward leveraging the full
business potential of the Internet.
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