Create and Enable SSL for website

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This instruction is strictly for creating certificate for Apache 2. For other web server please following instructions from SSL provider or other web sites

• First create a RSA private key for your Apache server (will be Triple-DES encrypted and PEM formatted):
  openssl genrsa -des3 -out [www.yourdomainname.com].key 2048.
• Create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with the server RSA private key (output will be PEM formatted):
  openssl req -new -key [www.yourdomainname.com].key -out [www.yourdomainname.com].csr
  Make sure to enter FQDN ("Fully Qualified Domain Name") of the server when OpenSSL prompts you for the "CommonName", i.e. when you generate a CSR for a website which will be later accessed via https://www.yourdomainname.com/, enter "www.yourdomainname.com" when asked.
• Following instructions provided by SSL provider and submit the created CSR file to the SSL provider site. You should receive a certificate file from the provider.

In order to enable SSL to work on different sites running from the same Apache server, different static IP adddresses are required or your application needs to accept a port different from standard port 443. Unfortunately, due to recent changes by the ISP top level company we no longer offer static IP addresses for private tomcat hosting as we reserve static IP addresses for dedicated server. We do apologize for this inconvenience.

• Log on to your online account
• Go to [Control Panel]
• Select [Update domain name and add virtual host]
• Check checkbox named SSL
• Copy both your private keys and certificate into private keys and certificate text field respectively. Make sure there is no extra space when copy and paste the certificate to the text fields
• Should received a confirmation that says the virtual hosting is successful. You should be able to access your site through https protocol