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Re: [cobalt-users] Raq550: SSL Certificate Location



I'm going with a less expensive company (instantssl.com).  A few of my clients use them without
problems.  No need to spend all that money for Verisign or Thawte.

John



Strictly Hosting wrote:
> 
> > I transferred everyting OK from the Raq4 and the SSL Certificate
> > transferred OK too -
> > automatically.  Now I have to renew my digital and I was creating
> > a Signing Request for a new SSL
> > digital certificate and now my SSL does not work.  There does not
> > seem to be a place to cut and
> > paste the SSL information in the GUI.  The import function does
> > not seem to be working either -
> > unless I am doing something wrong.  I have the old information
> > which is valid for another few weeks
> > and I want to put it back until the new company approves.  Where
> > can I paste this?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> 
> Hi John,
> You should not have to generate a new CSR if you are renewing with the
> same Authority <bunch of highway men - imho>
> 
> If you have then you will have overwriten the working cert.
> I don't have a raq5 yet but take a look in the site cert directory - now you
> have overwritten you
> will see the 2 in there - take a look at them with a text editor - compare
> them.
> 
> FTP them down to your machine and then paste the old one back into the gui -
> choose to enter an manually
> entered cert - don't change anything else especially the company details.
> 
> If this does not work you will have seen that there is also a old CSR
> [request] as well - do the same with this.
> 
> The issue is the CSR and the cert must match.
> 
> After a bit of fiddling it should work - coblat raqs are good because they
> bak up the old cert - just make sure you copy all the files in certs to a
> safe place before you start..
> 
> Tim
> 
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