{"id":75620,"date":"2020-01-20T11:18:10","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T05:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?p=75620"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:33:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T09:03:49","slug":"installing-a-certificate-from-certificate-authority","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/installing-a-certificate-from-certificate-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a Certificate from Certificate Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To obtain and install a Certificate from a Certificate Authority (like verisign.com, thawte.com or trustcenter.de), read the previous section and then follow these instructions:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Create a local Certificate Signing Request (CSR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to obtain a Certificate from the Certificate Authority of your choice you have to create a so called Certificate Signing Request (CSR). That CSR will be used by the Certificate Authority to create a Certificate that will identify your website as &#8220;secure&#8221;. To create a CSR follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a local Certificate (as described in the previous section):<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA \\<\/p>\n<p>-keystore &lt;your_keystore_filename&gt;<\/p>\n<p>In some cases you will have to enter the domain of your website (i.e. www.myside.org) in the field &#8220;first- and lastname&#8221; in order to create a working Certificate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The CSR is then created with:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>keytool -certreq -keyalg RSA -alias tomcat -file certreq.csr \\<\/p>\n<p>-keystore &lt;your_keystore_filename&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Now you have a file called certreq.csr that you can submit to the Certificate Authority (look at the documentation of the Certificate Authority website on how to do this). In return you get a Certificate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Importing the Certificate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now that you have your Certificate you can import it into you local keystore. First of all you have to import a so called Chain Certificate or Root Certificate into your keystore. After that you can proceed with importing your Certificate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download a Chain Certificate from the Certificate Authority you obtained the Certificate from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For Verisign.com commercial certificates go to:http:\/\/www.verisign.com\/support\/install\/intermediate.html<\/p>\n<p>For Verisign.com trial certificates go to: http:\/\/www.verisign.com\/support\/verisign-intermediate-ca\/Trial_Secure_Server_Root\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>For Trustcenter.de go to: http:\/\/www.trustcenter.de\/certservices\/cacerts\/en\/en.htm#server<\/p>\n<p>For Thawte.com go to: http:\/\/www.thawte.com\/certs\/trustmap.html<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Import the Chain Certificate into your keystore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>keytool -import -alias root -keystore &lt;your_keystore_filename&gt; \\<\/p>\n<p>-trustcacerts -file &lt;filename_of_the_chain_certificate&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>And finally import your new Certificate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>keytool -import -alias tomcat -keystore &lt;your_keystore_filename&gt; \\<\/p>\n<p>-file &lt;your_certificate_filename&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To obtain and install a Certificate from a Certificate Authority (like verisign.com, thawte.com or trustcenter.de), read the previous section and then follow these instructions: Create a local Certificate Signing Request (CSR) In order to obtain a Certificate from the Certificate Authority of your choice you have to create a so called Certificate Signing Request (CSR)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8678],"tags":[8749],"class_list":["post-75620","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-tomcat","tag-installing-a-certificate-from-certificate-authority"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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