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Generate a CSR (Certificate Signing Request) for my cPanel hosting
Updated Dec 10th, 2020 at 18:06 GMT
You can generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) in the cPanel account after your domain is pointing to the hosting product.
- Go to your tsoHost Client area
- Go to Services → my Services
- Select the exact service in product list
- Click "login to cPanel"
- In the account Dashboard, click cPanel Admin
- In the cPanel Home page, in the Security section, click SSL/TLS.
- Under Certificate Signing Requests (CSR), click Generate, view, or delete SSL certificate signing requests.
- Complete the fields in the Generate a New Certificate Signing Request (CSR) section.
- At the bottom of the form, click the Generate button.
Field | Description |
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Key | Detailed description. |
Domains | The fully-qualified domain name, or URL, youwant to secure. Note: If you are requesting a Wildcard certificate,add an asterisk (*) to the left of the commonname where you want the wildcard, for example*.coolexample.com. |
City | Name of the city where your organization isregistered/located. Do not abbreviate. |
State | Name of the state where your organization islocated. Do not abbreviate. |
Country | The two-letter International Organization forStandardization (ISO) format country code forwhere your organization is legally registered. |
Company | The legally-registered name for your business. Ifyou are enrolling as an individual, enter thecertificate requestor's name. |
On the new page, your CSR will display in the Encoded Certificate Signing Request section. You'll need to make a copy of the CSR to request an SSL certificate.
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After you create a CSR, you will need to request your certificate
- Standard
- Organization Validation
- Extended Validation