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Securing Your Online Business

BEA Weblogic 6 Support

During the online enrollment process you will be required to provide Entrust Certificate Services with a Certificate Signing Request (CSR).

This encrypted data is generated from your BEA Weblogic server, and contains information about your company and web server.

In the below example, Entrust uses the Certificate.war application to generate the keypair.

CSR Creation Steps

To generate a CSR, perform the following steps:

  1. Start the Certificate Request Generator servlet. The .war file for the servlet is located in the \wlserver6.0\config\mydomain\applications directory. The .war file is automatically installed when you start WebLogic Server.

  2. In a Web browser, enter the URL for the Certificate Request Generator servlet as follows: https://hostname:port/Certificate

  3. Fill in the CSR fields.

  4. This Organization name should reflect the legally registered name of your company or organization.

    Note: This organization name must be the registrant title of the domain name that appears in Common Name (CN) of your server.

    ! Do not use the following characters in any of the fields in the Create New Key Wizard: > < ! @ # $ % ^ * ( ) ~ ? / \.

  5. Supply the Common Name (CN) of your web server in the field provided. This name must be identical to the fully qualified domain name of the site 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 specify the protocol (http://), any port numbers or pathnames in the Common Name (CN).

    ! Do not use wildcards such as * or ?.

Once your CSR is created, you will see a new PEM file (Base64 encoded file) in your server directory (default), you may close window. Use this CSR to place your Entrust SSL Certificate order.