Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Wildcard SSLSecurityCertificates


  • Use the below given command in CMD at <Drive>\<Apache>\bin at present the path is D:\Apache24\bin
  • openssl req -config "D:\Apache24\bin\openssl.cnf" -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout myserver.key -out server.csr
  • For the purposes of completing the SSL Certificate request the following information must be used
    1. Country Name (2 letter code) [AU]:INDIA
    2. State or Province Name (full name) [Some-State]:UP
    3. Locality Name (eg, city) []:Ghaziabad
    4. Organization Name (eg, company) [Internet Widgits Pty Ltd]:Transportation %7C WarehouseOptimization LLC
      1. Note: Do not know why the "|" symbol that should be in the name was interpretted back to it's acsii value but it was
    5. Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []:SYSTEM MANAGEMENT
    6. Common Name (e.g. server FQDN or YOUR name) []:*.4dots.COM
    7. Email Address []:support@example.com
    8. Please enter the following 'extra' attributes
    9. to be sent with your certificate request
    10. A challenge password []:
      1. NOTE: Leave blank and just press the enter key
    11. An optional company name []:
      1. NOTE: Leave blank and just press the enter key


  • Uploading the the CSR to your SSL provider i.e GoDady
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