Generating a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

The first part of enrolling for your SSL Certificate is to generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). CSR generation is wholly dependent on the software you use on your Web server. Select your Web server software from the list after reading the following general points.

General Points to remember before creating your CSR:

• The Common Name field should be the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or the Web address for which you plan to use your Certificate, e.g. the area of your site you wish customers to connect to using SSL. For example, an SSL Certificate issued for networksolutions.com will not be valid for www.networksolutions.com or for secure.networksolutions.com. If the Web address to be used for SSL is www.networksolutions.com, ensure that the common name submitted in the CSR is www.networksolutions.com; similarly, if the Web address to be used for SSL is secure.networksolutions.com, ensure that the common name submitted in the CSR is secure.networksolutions.com.
• When generating a CSR for Wildcard SSL Certificates, the Cert must have a Common Name of *.domainname.com where you will substitute domainname.com with your domain.
• Note: Always replace the sample data (such as Web addresses) that is used in these support documents as examples with your own data.

SSL Certificates are compatible with almost all popular Web server software. If your Web server software does not appear on the list, please contact premiersupport@networksolutions.com with full details of your Web server software and we will contact you with further instructions.