Fame Hosting

We accept

Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) for an SSL Certificate from RapidSSL.com

Microsoft IIS 4.0 - Internet Information Services 4.0

Follow these instructions to generate a CSR for your Web site. When you have completed this process, you will have a CSR ready to submit to RapidSSL.com in order to be generated into a SSL Security Certificate.

You must have Service Pack 4 or higher, or MS Internet Explorer 5 and higher

Open the Key Manager. Go to the Key menu and select Create New Key.

Select Put the request in a file that you will send to an authority. Enter a file and path in the text box that you will remember.
Example: C:\NewKeyRq.txt
Click Next

Enter your key name as specified in the previous step. Enter and confirm a password.

Warning: If you lose the password, you must purchase another certificate.

When creating a CSR you must follow these conventions.
Enter the Distinguished Name Field information.
The following characters can not be accepted: < > ~ ! @ # $ % ^ * / \ ( ) ?&.

Distinguished Name Field	Explanation	Example
Common Name	The fully qualified domain name for your server. This must be an exact match	If you intend to secure the URL https://www.yourdomain.com, then your CSR's common name must be www.yourdomain.com.
Organization	The exact legal name of your Organization. Do not abbreviate your Organization name	Your Company, Inc.
Organization Unit	Section of the Organization	Marketing
City or Locality	The city where your Organization is legally located	Atlanta
State / Province	The State / Province where your Organization is legally located. Can not be abbreviated	Georgia
Country	The two-letter ISO abbreviation for your country	US = United States
Administrator Name	Contact Name	John Smith
Email Address	your email address	john.smith@yourdomain.com
Phone Number	Contact phone	(xxx) xxx-xxxx

After you close out of the key manager, click on Yes to Commit all Changes.

Warning: If you do not click yes, your private key will not be saved and your certificate will not install.

Submit your CSR to Fame Hosting and complete the online enrollment process.
Note: Remember to back up your key pair file.

The Server Gated Cryptographic extension can be enabled or disabled from the registry.

Check the registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\ SCHANNEL

By default, there is no value or key for EnableSGC. You have to add it in order to support SGC, and you would set the value to 1 - that is, you would create a new key "EnableSGC" and set its value to 1. If the "EnableSGC" key already exists, just set EnableSGC=0.

See also the following Microsoft articles: