Friday, January 17, 2014

Add Godaddy SSL Certificate with Simple Control Panel

This task seems easy at first but it can become more tricky than what it looks. If you have a godaddy SSL and Simple Control Panel, this will make your life easier.

1. Go to Simple control panel and click on SSL Certificates
2. Click on CSR and fill in the form linking with appropriate domain. Set Key Length to 2048
3. After the record is created, edited and copy the CSR KEY
4. Log in to godaddy control panel.
5. Click on SSL Certificates and enter de SSL Certificate control panel.
6. Choose the desired certificate and click on Key or Re-Key.
7. Paste the CSR key and click next.
8. Download the certificate for Apache.
9. Open the downloaded files and go back to Simple Control Panel.
10. Edit the certificate previously generated.
11. There will be two fields filled up and two empty. Copy/paste the key of the certificate from file you downloaded into the Certificate box.
12. Finally copy the Intermediate Certificates from the gd_bundle file into the Intermediate Certificate box, and click Save.

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