Add to Favorites Apache uses x509 pem/crt certificate files for its configurations. This means that there a singular files to represent each certificate file that a system can use. Unlike Tomcat or Windows systems that use 1 singular file to store all the certificates within it. You will follow these steps to copy, move and import your […]
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CSR Generation Instructions (All Systems)
Add to Favorites A Certificate Signing Request or CSR is a specially formatted underdeveloped public key that is used for enrollment of an SSL Certificate. The information on this CSR is important for a Certificate Authority (CA). It is needed to validate the information required to issue a SSL Certificate. Creation of a CSR also […]
How to move certificate from Apache to Server 2012 IIS 8
Add to Favorites Depending on your network you may have to move your SSL/TLS server certificate and its private key from one system to another. This article covers how to convert and move your SSL certificate, its private key, and its intermediate CA from Apache a Microsoft IIS 8 Server 2012 System. Apache systems are very […]
SSL Installation Instructions (All Systems)
Add to Favorites After your certificate has been issued like the majority of server systems you will install your SSL certificate on the same server where your Certificate Signing Request (CSR) was created. This is because your private key will always be left on the server system where the CSR was originally created. It will […]
Microsoft Server 2012 – IIS 8 & 8.5 – CSR Instructions
Add to Favorites To generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for Server 2012 – IIS 8 & 8.5 you will need to create a key pair for your server the public key and private key. These two items are a digital certificate key pair and cannot be separated. On Windows type systems PFX/PKCS12 requests are […]