- Open URL https://www.startssl.com/?app=12, select sign-up to register.
- Enter Personal registration information
The following points are to be noted:
(1) The address must be detailed, otherwise you will receive such an email: Please provide us with your street address and house number of residence.
Company English Address: (405, 4F, Block c,tianfa Mansion, Futian District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province)
(2) do not use the company email or you will receive a message like this: Initial registration must be made as natural person
Suggest using Gmail email account
- After entering the above information, click Continue
Startssl will send you an email, including a verification code, to your completed email address. Enter the verification code. Click Continue, and wait for the STARTSSL audit. (The audit time is about 10 minutes)
Waiting for approval, whether through or not, Startssl will reply to your email address and check it out.
If the prompt fails, review the reason for the failure and reapply.
If the application is successful, open the link in the message and enter the verification code provided in the message to download the installation certificate.
Backup certificate
After the personal certificate is installed, it is recommended to back up the certificate, this certificate is used to do STARTSSL authentication, STARTSSL only provide certificate authentication, so if you lose the certificate, it can only re-register the user.
For backup methods, refer to the Help documentation: HTTP://WWW.STARTSSL.COM/?APP=25#1
- Install personal certificates
Once the personal operation Certificate has been installed, you can return to the Control Panel, click Authenticate voucher book login, select Domain name validation, click Continue
- Enter the SSL domain name you requested and click Continue
- Next Choose your domain owner's mailbox, if your domain name is set up Whois protection, may also first go to the domain name registrar to unprotect, otherwise cannot use domain Administrator mailbox through domain name ownership verification
- After submitting the domain name, send the activation email to the mailbox, fill in the verification code, pass the verification.
- After the validation is complete, open the Certificates Wizard Options window, select Web Server SSL/TLS Certificate in Target, and then click Continue
- Enter the password for the private key, click Continue, and use the password to decrypt it on the server.
- The Save Private Key page appears, storing the text inside the text square box, named ssl.crt
- Click Continue, the Add Domains page appears, select your domain name, click Continue
- Still the Add Domains page, enter WWW in the box, click Continue, wait for SSL audit
- If approved, open tool Box and select Retrieve Certificate
- After approval, you can find the domain name certificate you requested in the right column, click Continue
- Save the text in the Text square box, named ssl.crt
- At this point, the certificate request is complete. 3 documents will be saved throughout the process.
A, certificate (lost certificate will not be able to log on to SSL management of your domain name, after expiration can not login and renew)
B, Ssl.key (server configuration prerequisite files, you need to remember the password previously encrypted.) Need to be decrypted on the server)
C, SSL.CRT (Configure prerequisite files on the server)
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