SSL Certificates

CSR Instructions - WebLogic 5

Follow these instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site. When you have completed this process, you will have a CSR ready to submit to RapidSSL.com in order to be generated into a SSL Security Certificate.

OpenSSL is the open source project that replaced SSLeay. If you are using SSLeay on your system instead of OpenSSL, substitute ssleay with openssl for the commands.

Bea WebLogic 5.1

Follow these instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site. When you have completed this process, you will have a CSR ready to submit to eWAY® in order to be generated into a SSL Security Certificate.

  1. Start WebLogic web server. Note Port 7001 for http and Port 7002 for https (SSL)

  2. Start the "Certificate Request Generator."

    1. Start your web-browser.
    2. Start the Certificate Generator:
      http://servername:port/Certificate

  4. Fill in the fields for the Certificate Signing Request

  5. Click "Generate Request" This process creates 3 files in the serverroot directory - the private key, and the certificate signing request in both binary and text formats.

  6. Copy the Certificate Signing Request and send to GeoTrust.
    (Go through steps for purchasing a certificate and paste your certificate request in block when prompted)

    **** Be sure to include -----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
    and -----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----

    MAKE BACKUPS!

    1. www_domainname_com-key.der - This is the private key file
    2. www_domainname_com-request.dem - Certificate Request in Binary format
    3. www_domainname_com-request.pem - Certificate Request in text format

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