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Manually install an SSL certificate on a cPanel hosting
Updated Apr 27th, 2021 at 14:51 BST
After your certificate request is approved, you can download your certificate from the SSL manager and install it on your cPanel hosting account.
Required: Organization Validation (OV) and Extended Validation (EV) certificates, as well as SSLs for addon domains or subdomains, must be installed manually.
- If you haven't done it already, download your certificate from the SSL manager and save the .crt file some where that's easy to find.
- Go to your tsoHost Client area
- Go to Services → my Services
- Select cPanel Admin
- In the Security section, select SSL/TLS.
- Under Certificates (CRT), select Generate, view, upload, or delete SSL certificates.
- In the Upload a New Certificate section, select Choose File and navigate to the .crt file you downloaded in step 1. Select the file and then select Open.
- If you want to, type a description of the certificate in the Description text box.
- Select Upload Certificate.
- When you get confirmation that the certificate has been saved, select Go Back.
- At the bottom of the SSL Certificates page, select Return to SSL Manager.
- Under Install and Manage SSL for your site (HTTPS), select Manage SSL Sites.
- In the Install an SSL Website section, select Browse Certificates
- Select the certificate that you want to activate and select Use Certificate. This will auto-fill the fields for the certificate.
- At the bottom of the page, select Install Certificate.
- On the Successfully Installed pop up, select OK.
Your certificate is installed! Now you need to direct visitors to the secure version of your site by redirecting to HTTPS.