Getting & Using Ssl Certificate ?

Follow these steps exactly and you won't go wrong. (Please note, this process has to followed to the letter or you will have problems).

STEP1: Buy your certificate

You can buy  it from us, for under $30.00 per year or from anywhere else. Just make sure it is not a chained certificate. Some companies sell "cheap" certificates that aren't worth anything. You can, of course, go to Verisign and get the same thing for $350.00. That's up to you. If we get the certificate for you, we generally use RapidSSL.
 

STEP 2: Generate the CSR (Webnet77 Customers only)

You will need to provide us with the following information: 
NOTE: This is an exact science. The information you provide must be 100% accurate or your certificate will not work.

Issuing authority Description Abbrev What it is Comments Subject: Email Address E Your Email address Email address you entered when purchasing the Certificate. This email will be viewable by anyone clicking the certificate on your website. Subject: Common Name CN Your Host name (URL)

Host to make certificate for. This must match exactly what you entered when you bought the certificate. 

For example, if you entered your domain as domain.com the certificate will not work onwww.domain.com.  

Example #2 secure.domain.com is not the same as www.secure.domian.com. Certificates only work on the exact domain.

Subject: Country Name C Country Code 2 Letter Country code. Subject: State S State/Province State. Subject: City L Your City City. Subject: Organization O Your Name or Organization Unless you are a corporation or company, this will usually by your full name. Be sure to select the correct options when purchasing your certificate. Subject: Organizational Unit OU Your Name or Organization Unless you are a corporation or company, this will usually by your full name. Be sure to select the correct options when purchasing your certificate.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL THE ABOVE INFORMATION MUST MATCH YOUR CERTIFICATE EXACTLY (CASE ALSO) AS YOU ENTERED THE DATA WHEN YOU BOUGHT IT. IF YOU ENTER, FOR EXAMPLE, YOUR NAME AS "Dan A Jones" WHEN PURCHASING THE CERTIFICATE, YOU CANNOT ENTER "Dan Jones" (Without the "A") ON THE CSR. REMEMBER, EXACTLY THE SAME AS ON THE CERTIFICATE - EVERY SPACE, EVERY PERIOD, EVERY COMMA - OR IT WILL NOT WORK.

If you have all the information and only if you have all the information and have already purchased your certificate and need the CSR.

STEP 3: Enter the CSR at the place where you purchased the certificate.

After you enter the CSR, the company where you purchased your certificate will usually require you prove your identity. In most cases they will require you to either call them or fax them with the information they require. Simply follow their instructions.

Once you have jumped through all the hoops and complied with the screening process they will contact you to tell you your certificate is ready.

You now need to send us the entire certificate so that we can

• Reserve an IP address for you. (We need the certificate to justify the IP address).
• Install the certificate on your site for you.

STEP 4: Reserve an IP address for you for your SSL website (webnet77 customers only).

• A SSL Certificate can only be assigned to a website with a unique IP address. In the early days of the Internet, IP addresses were handed out left and right, no questions asked. These days, we have to justify to ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) why we want the IP address. ARIN will only approve unique IP addresses for individual domains under very specific conditions. A secure website is one such condition.
   
• It has never happened before but there is no guarantee that ARIN will approve additional IP addresses. If your request for an additional IP address is denied, there is nothing we can do and your certificate will be useless. However, the chances of this are very slim.
   
• It can take up to 72 hours for your IP address to be approved and allocated. This has nothing to do with us and is simply because of bureaucratic red tape.

STEP 5

• For having generated the CSR (Certificate signing request), getting the dedicated IP for you, Installing the certificate on your site and generally holding you hand through the entire process.
   
• Please settle as soon as possible after we invoice you to avoid delays.