Generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

Please follow these instructions to generate certificate signing request (CSR) with a 2048-bit key for your domain within Bravenet.

Open up your servers SSH terminal. For information on how to access your account via SSH, please click here.

Once you have a terminal window/prompt open; please type in the following command:

openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout yourdomain.key -out yourdomain.csr

 Replace yourdomain with the domain name you're securing. For example, if your domain name is myawesomesite.com, you would type myawesomesite.key and myawesomesite.csr.

Enter the requested information:
- Common Name: The fully-qualified domain name, or URL, you're securing.
  If you are requesting a Wildcard certificate, add an asterisk (*) to the left of the common name where you want the wildcard, for example *.myawesomesite.com.
- Organization: The legally-registered name for your business. If you are enrolling as an individual, enter the certificate requestor's name.
- Organization Unit: If applicable, enter the DBA (doing business as) name.
- City or Locality: Name of the city where your organization is registered/located. Do not abbreviate.
- State or Province: Name of the state or province where your organization is located. Do not abbreviate.
- Country: The two-letter International Organization for Standardization (ISO) format country code for where your organization is legally registered.
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If you do not want to enter a password for this SSL, you can leave the Passphrase field blank. However, please understand there might be additional risks.
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Open the CSR in a text editor and copy/paste all contents of the CSR into the required fields of your SSL's CA (Certificate Authority) to generate a SSL certificate.