CSR Popular Web Servers

Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR)

We've included links to instructions for generating CSRs on several of today's most popular web servers. If your server is not listed, please reference your web server's documentation.

NOTE: When creating your CSR, you'll be asked to complete a signing request form. For descriptions of each term used in that form, click here.

• Dotster Hosting
• Apache-SSL / Apache ModSSL
• cPanel/WHM 11
• cPanel/WHM 10
• Microsoft IIS 7
• Microsoft IIS 6
• Microsoft IIS 5
• Plesk 9
• Plesk 8

CSR Fields

You will need to provide several pieces of information when creating your CSR.

Common Name/Domain Name

• This includes the Fully Qualified Domain Name for your certificate (in other words, the web address where you plan to use your SSL Certificate). You must enter the exact web address where you want to use your SSL certificate. For instance, if you want your certificate to work on secure.example.com, you need to enter secure.example.com into the Common Name field.

Examples:

• www.example.com
• secure.example.com
• blog.example.com

• Wildcard Certificates: If you want to create a Wildcard SSL (which will work on any subdomain), you must input an asterisk (*) in place of the subdomain position. For instance, to create a wildcard SSL Certificate that will secure both www.example.com and secure.example.com, you would input *.example.com into the Common Name field.

• Examples:

• *.example.com

Organization

Enter the precise legal name of your organization, without abbreviations. For instance: ABC Corporation or Budget Car Sales LLC.

Organizational Unit

Denotes the division or department of the organization using this SSL Certificate. For example: Marketing, Sales, Customer Service

City or Locality

The city where your organization is officially located, i.e. your physical address. Do not abbreviate. Example: Do not use "LA" in place of "Los Angeles."

State or Province

The state or province where your organization is officially located, i.e. your physical address. Do not abbreviate. Example: Do not use "WA" in place of "Washington."

Country (C)

The two-letter ISO Country Code abbreviation for the country where your organization is officially located. Example: US, CA, MX.

Email

Any email address associated with the applicant. This email address will not be used to process your order.

Key Bit Length

A key bit length of at least 1024 is suggested. Extended Validation (EV) certificates require a 2048 key bit length. This bit length reflects only the initial key exchange, not the level of encryption on your SSL Certificate.

ISO Country Codes

Afghanistan	AF
Albania	AL
Algeria	DZ
American Samoa	AS
Andorra	AD
Angola	AO
Anguilla	AI
Antarctica	AQ
Antigua and Barbuda	AQ
Argentina	AR
Armenia	AM
Aruba	AW
Austria	AT
Australia	AU
Azerbaidjan	AZ
Bahamas	BS
Bahrain	BH
Bangladesh	BD
Barbados	BB
Belarus	BY
Belgium	BE
Belize	BZ
Benin	BJ
Bermuda	BM
Bolivia	BO
Bosnia-Herzegovina	BA
Botswana	BW
Bouvet Island	BV
Brazil	BR
British Indian Ocean Terr	IO
Brunei Darussalam	BN
Bulgaria	BG
Burkina Faso	BF
Burundi	BI
Buthan	BT
Cambodia	KH
Cameroon	CM
Canada	CA
Cape Verde	CV
Cayman Islands	KY
Central African Republic	CF
Chad	TD
Chile	CL
China	CN
Christmas Island	CX
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	CC
Colombia	CO
Comoros	KM
Congo	CG
Cook Islands	CK
Costa Rica	CR
Croatia	HR
Cyprus	CY
Czech Republic	CZ
Denmark	DK
Djibouti	DJ
Dominica	DM
Dominican Republic	DO
East Timor	TP
Ecuador	EC
Egypt	EG
El Salvador	SV
Equatorial Guinea	GQ
Estonia	EE
Ethiopia	ET
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	FK
Faroe Islands	FO
Fiji	FJ
Finland	FI
France	FR
French Southern Terr	TF
Gabon	GA
Gambia	GM
Georgia	GM
Germany	DE
Ghana	GH
Gibraltar	GI
Greece	GR
Greenland	GL
Grenada	GD
Guadeloupe (French)	GP
Guam (US)	GT
Guinea Bissau	GW
Guinea	GN
Guyana (French)	GF
Guyana	GY
Haiti	HT
Heard and McDonald Is	HM
Hong Kong	HK
Hungary	HU
Iceland	IS
India	IN
Indonesia	ID
Ireland	IE
Israel	IL
Italy	IT
Ivory Coast	IC
Jamaica	JM
Japan	JP
Jordan	JO
Kazachstan	KZ
Kenya	KE
Kirgistan	KG
Kiribati	KI
Kuwait	KW
Laos	LA
Latvia	LV
Lebanon	LB
Lesotho	LS
Liberia	LR
Liechtenstein	LI
Lithuania	LT
Luxembourg	LU
Macau	MO
Madagascar	MG
Malawi	MW
Malaysia	MY
Maldives	MV
Mali	ML
Malta	MT
Marshall Islands	MH
Martinique (French)	MQ
Mauritania	MR
Mauritius	MU
Mexico	MX
Micronesia	FM
Moldavia	MD
Monaco	MC
Mongolia	MN
Montenegro	ME
Montserrat	MS
Morocco	MA
Mozambique	MZ
Myanmar	MM
Namibia	NA
Nauru	NR
Nepal	NP
Netherland Antilles	AN
Netherlands	NL
Neutral Zone	NT
New Caledonia (French)	NC
New Zealand	NZ
Nicaragua	NI
Niger	NE
Nigeria	NG
Niue	NU
Norfolk Island	NF
Northern Mariana Is	MP
Norway	NO
Oman	OM
Pakistan	PK
Palau	PW
Panama	PA
Papua New	PG
Paraguay	PY
Peru	PE
Philippines	PH
Pitcairn	PN
Poland	PL
Polynesia (French)	PF
Portugal	PT
Puerto Rico (US)	PR
Qatar	QA
Reunion (French)	RE
Romania	RO
Russian Federation	RU
Rwanda	RW
Saint Helena	SH
Saint Kitts Nevis Anguilla	KN
Saint Lucia	LC
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	PM
Saint Tome and Principe	ST
Saint Vincent and Grenadines	VC
Samoa	WS
San Marino	SM
Saudi Arabia	SA
Senegal	SN
Serbia	RS
Seychelles	SC
Slovenia	SL
Singapore	SG
Slovak Republic	SK
Slovenia	SI
Solomon Islands	SB
Somalia	SO
South Africa	ZA
South Georgia & Sandwich Is	GS
South Korea	KR
Soviet Union	SU
Spain	ES
Sri Lanka	LK
Sudan	SD
Suriname	SR
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Is	SJ
Swaziland	SZ
Sweden	SE
Switzerland	CH
Tadjikistan	TJ
Taiwan	TW
Tanzania	TZ
Thailand	TH
Togo	TG
Tokelau	TK
Tonga	TO
Trinidad and Tobago	TT
Tunisia	TN
Turkey	TR
Turkmenistan	TM
Turks and Caicos Islands	TC
Tuvalu	TV
Ukraine	UA
United Arab Emirates	AE
United Kingdom	GB
United States	US
Uruguay	UR
US Minor Outlying Islands	UM
Uzbekistan	UZ
Vanuatu	VU
Vatican City State	VA
Venezuela	VE
Vietnam	VN
Virgin Islands (British)	VG
Virgin Islands (US)	VI
Wallis and Futuna Islands	WF
Western Sahara	EH
Yemen	YE
Zaire	ZR
Zambia	ZM
Zimbabwe	ZW