How do I setup an Entrust SSL certificate within Plesk 7.5 ? — Technote Article

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Audience: Administrator
Last Modified: 2006-11-23 12:33:01.0

TN 6971 - How do I setup an Entrust SSL certificate within Plesk 7.5 ?

Before You Begin

The following steps have been tested successully with Plesk 7.5 reloaded.
To perform these steps you must be logged in to Plesk with full administration rights.

The Below guide is intended for Plesk Administration on Red Hat or Fedora O/S running Apache.

Creating your CSR and Private Key for your domain

Login to Plesk and Choose your domain
Click Certificates under Services section
Click Add New Certificate
Fill out the CSR form for the following:

Certificate Name - Type your domain name
Bits - select 1024 or 2048
Country - Select your Country where your business is registered
State or province - Type in your state or province
Location (City) - Type in your city or locality
Organization Name (company) - Type in your legal business or organization name
Organization department - Optional
Domain Name - Type in your common name (ie: www.entrust.net )
E-mail - Type in your email address

Click on the button "Request"
On the next screen, under the "Certificate Name" heading
Click on your domain and scroll down.
Copy your the private key to notepad and guard this file for safe keeping.
DO NOT EMAIL TO ANYONE.

Example of Private Key:

Copy your CSR code and submit this to Entrust to enroll for an SSL certificate.

Example of CSR (certificate signing request)

Server Certificate Installation

Please note: This puts the keypair into the Administrator's Repository and the Domain's Repository (for extra protection of key loss)

Part 1

Login to Plesk and Choose your domain
Click Certificates under Services section
Under Certificates heading, click on the certificate listed
Under "Upload certificate as text", Paste your SSL Certificate code into the form, that you received from Entrust
Click on Send Text

When you add a certificate to repository, it is not installed automatically onto the domain or assigned to an IP address, but rather saved for the future uses. You can assign a certificate to an IP address from your IP pool management screen, or during hosting setup on an exclusively granted IP.

Part 2

Login to Plesk and go to your main Server Administration section
Click Add new Certificate
Under Upload New Certificate Files, browse to your Private Key and Entrust SSL certificate
Click Send File
You may also Upload Certificate as Text and click on Send Text

Assigning your Entrust SSL Certificate

Please note: Before Proceeding, you must assign SSL certificates to IP addresses, your domain's IP should be exclusively allocated to you.

Click on your Client,
Click on IP Pool and Click on domain's IP address (Click Show All if you do not see any)
Select the required SSL certificate name from the SSL certificate drop-down box.
Click on the OK button at the bottom

To assign SSL certificate to domains:

Click on Domains and Choose your domain
Click the Physical hosting Setup icon
Select the required SSL certificate from the SSL certificate drop-down box.
Select the exclusive IP address for this domain.
Click on OK button at the bottom

Stopping and Starting Apache

For the new certificate to take effect, please sto and start Apache

From your Server Administration section, click on Service Management
Stop the Web Server (Apache) service
Start the Web Server (Apache) service

Disaster Recovery

From your Server Administration section, click on Certificates
Click on your Certificate Name
Manually Copy and Paste the Private Key and SSL Certificate to plain notepad.
Store in a safe and secure location
Do this for each Certificate Name

Affected Products:

Entrust Certificate Services 1 Year Advantage SSL Certificate Version Not Applicable Language Not Applicable Platform Not Applicable
Entrust Certificate Services 1 Year SSL Certificate Version Not Applicable Language Not Applicable Platform Not Applicable
Entrust Certificate Services 2 Year Advantage SSL Certificate Version Not Applicable Language Not Applicable Platform Not Applicable
Entrust Certificate Services 2 Year SSL Certificate Version Not Applicable Language Not Applicable Platform Not Applicable
Entrust Certificate Services Cert Admin Advantage Server Certificate 1 Year Version Not Applicable Language Not Applicable Platform Not Applicable
Entrust Certificate Services Cert Admin Advantage Server Certificate 2 Year Version Not Applicable Language Not Applicable Platform Not Applicable

SSL Certificates

Extended Validation (EV)

Advantage SSL

Standard SSL

Unified Communications

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