Lotus Domino R5 Support
Entrust strongly recommends that you take the following precautions to ensure that you are able to Install your Entrust SSL Certificate:
- Do not use commas in any of the fields you fill in when creating the CSR. Commas are interpreted as the end of the field and will cause an invalid CSR to be generated.
- Do not use any of the following characters in the Web server Distinguished Name: ! @ # $ % ^ * () ~ ? < > & / \
- When you generate the CSR, make sure you are logged in as an Administrator to the computer that hosts your Web server.
From the Server Certificate Administration database interface, perform the following procedure to generate the key ring and the CSR:
- Click the 1. Create Key Ring option.
- Enter the appropriate information in each field keeping the following example in mind:
"O" Organization = Entrust, Inc.
"OU" Organizational Unit = Entrust.net
"CN" Common Name = www.entrust.net (this is the URL of your website)
"C" Country / Region = CA
"St" State / Province = Ontario
"L" Locality = OttawaFor more detailed information on this please see Creating Your Distinguished Name.
- Click the Create Key Ring button.
This generates the key ring file and stores it in the location displayed below the Key Ring Information area of the screen. The Server Certificate Administration interface screen appears.
- Click the 2. Create Certificate Request option.
- Follow the instructions that are displayed onscreen.
- Click the Create Certificate Request button. The Certificate Request Created dialog box appears
- Click the Create Certificate Request button. The Certificate Request Created dialog box appears
- Copy the selected text. You will paste this text into the appropriate form on the Entrust Web site when asked to supply a CSR. To use the CSR to obtain your Entrust certificate(s), go to http://www.entrust.com/
- Country code: The two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country (for example, US for the United States).
- Country code: The two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country (for example, US for the United States).
- Locality: Usually the name of the city in which your organization has its head office.
- Organization: The name under which your organization is registered. This organization must own the domain name that appears in common name of your Web server. Do not abbreviate your organization's name and do not use any of the following characters: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / \ ( ) ?. This is the name you recorded in the Organization heading of the Web Server Certificate Enrollment Guide.
- Organizational unit: Normally the name of the department or group that will be using the secure Web server.
- Common name: The name of your Web server as it appears in the server's URL (for example, www.entrust.com). This name must be identical to the fully qualified domain name of the Web server for which you are requesting a certificate. If the Web server name does not match the common name in the certificate, some browsers will refuse to establish a secure connection with your site. Do not include the protocol specifier (http://) or any port numbers or pathnames in the common name. Do not use use wildcards such as * or ?, and do not use an IP address.
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