SSL Certificates

Generating a CSR for Plesk

Follow these instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site.

1. From inside PSA, choose the domain in which you are creating a CSR for.

2. Click the Request button.

3. Fill in the form for a Certificate Request.

When creating a CSR you must follow these conventions. Enter the information to be displayed in the certificate. The following characters can not be accepted: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / \ ( ) ?.,&

DN Field	Explanation	Example < /h4>
Common Name	The fully qualified domain name for your web server. This must be an exact match.	If you intend to secure the URL https://www.geotrust.com, then your CSR's common name must be www.geotrust.com.
Organization	The exact legal name of your organization. Do not abbreviate your organization name.	GeoTrust
Organization Unit	Section of the organization	Marketing
City or Locality	The city where your organization is legally located.	Wellesley Hills
State or Province	The state or province where your organization is legally located. Can not be abbreviated.	Massachusetts
Country	The two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country.	US

4. Upon completion, you will receive from the plesk server an email containing an RSA private key and a Certificate Request.

Save the private key. If you lose it, the certificate that you will receive from us will not work.

5. Submit your CSR to GeoTrust by pasting it into our web form. You will be asked to complete the agreement and the enrollment form as well.

See Also

• Q104197: SSL Certificates: Generating a CSR