Generate CSR Instructions: Deerfield/O'Reilly WebSite Professional 3
- Follow these instructions to generate a Private Key and CSR for your Web site.
- When creating a CSR you must follow these conventions. Enter the information
to be displayed in the certificate. The following characters cannot
be accepted: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ / \ ( ) ? , &
CSR Input Fields
| Field |
Explanation |
Example |
Common Name (CN)
(host name, FQDN, etc.) |
The fully qualified domain name for your web server. This must
be an exact match. |
If you intend to secure the URL https://www.domain.com,
then your CSR's common name must be "www.domain.com".
For https://secure.domain.com
it must be "secure.domain.com".
For just https://domain.com it
must be just "domain.com".
For https://owa.mailserver.net it must be "owa.mailserver.net".
A Wildcard for https://sub.primary-domain.com must be "*.primary-domain.com".
The asterisk must be included for Wildcard CSR's. |
| Organization (O) |
The exact legal name of your organization. Do not abbreviate your
organization name. |
Metro Realty LLC or Flowers by Jenny |
| Organizational Unit (OU) |
Section of the organization |
Sales Division or IT or Marketing |
| City or Locality (L) |
The city where your organization is legally located. Cannot be
abbreviated. |
Boston |
| State (S) or Province |
The state or province where your organization is legally located. Cannot
be abbreviated. |
Massachusetts |
| Country (C) |
The two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country. |
US, CA, GB, (must be two-letters) |
| Email |
Any email address. This field is arbitrary but must be filled in. GeoTrust
will not use this email address to process your order. |
user@domain.com |
| Key Bit Length |
The key bit length has to do with the initial key exchange, not the
encryption strength of your certificate. |
GeoTrust recommends a key bit length of at least 1024 |
- To find your Certificate Signing Request (CSR), go to the location that
you specified in the Request Disposition screen. If you did not specify
a location, the file will be located in the \Website directory.
- Save a copy of your CSR. The CSR will be needed during the purchase
process. You'll be asked to copy-and-paste
your CSR into a special CSR box.
Below is an example of what your CSR will look like. This
is a example only and cannot be used to generate your SSL certificate.
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----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-----END CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
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