SSL Installation Guide

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For those that never done a SSL Certificate install before follow these steps and you should be fine.

1. Make sure you have a dedicated IP for the domain you are putting the SSL Certificate on

2. Deside on what domain (domain.com) or subdomain (secure.domain.com) for your SSL Certificate

3. Login to your cPanel

4. If you desided on subdomain follow the next 3 steps if not then skip to step 8

5. Find and click on the Subdomains icon

6. Enter a name for for your subdomain then click on Add

7. Click on the link that says Home at the top cPanel

8. Find and click on the SSL Manager icon

9. Click on Private Keys

10. About middle of the page you will see Generate a New Key and below that over you will see Select a Domain

11. Select your domain that you are planning to use and click on Generate

12. Click on the link that says "Go Back" twice

13. Click on a link that says Certificate Signing Requests (CSR)

14. Fill in the information below where it says Generate a New Certificate Signing Request then click on Generate

15. You will get some like this at the top of the page. This information is needed at the time of purchase of your SSL Certificate

Copy this below in note pad

Generated Certificate Signing Request

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----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-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

16. Click on the link that says "Go Back" twice

17. Click on a link that says Certificates (CRT)

18. Then you will see Upload a New Certificate

19. Paste the crt below: which is the Generated Certificate Signing Request that will be in your note pad

20. Go to like Rapid SSL and order your SSL Certificate and just follow the steps that they outline on their web site.

21. Then your done

If you have any problems after you installed you New SSL Certificate put in a support ticket for some help.