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This step also includes various CA specific procedures to prove your identity.
You may also be prompted for a host name underneath your domain. If you want to use both https://www.earth.com and https://earth.com then make sure both are listed here.
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Keys
The CA will use your public key in the CSR to sign and return back your server certificate.
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Toolbox, Retrieve Certificate, select your certificate. The result is often a file in (I think DER format (link to upcoming article about formats and standards) or base64 PEM base64 encoded certificate which will be a file or webpage. In our case it is a webpage where you must copy and paste the Certificate text data into a text file. |
The text file should be saved contains your server public key signed by the CA. Save the file with the domain name and the crt extension (link to upcoming article about formats and standards) and is your public key signed by that CAextensions to denote encoding and type. In this example, it the file name will be,
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www.earth.com_server.base64.crt |
earth.com_server.crt.
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Provide a sub-page to explain the CA signing process as an example. |
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