How To Install A Network Solutions EV SSL Certificate On CentOS Apache 2

Published Date Author: , Posted October 11th, 2011 at 5:42:57pm

Create the server key from your original private key by removing the pass-phase:

These are the files that NetSol provided me in the download .zip file (domain name changed to protect the innocent):

Network Solutions does not make it easy on you – in the install docs they tell you there is yet another file that you really need, but they do not include it. Typical NetSol crap…

For you convenience I have a link to the file for you: Apache_Plesk_Install.txt

Place the three files (server.key, YOURDOMAIN.crt, and Apache_Plesk_Install.txt) into your server’s standard SSL cert location (or anywhere secure) and point your configuration at them…

For example, on my server the directory is /etc/ssl/ and my config file is /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf:

Different Apache installations use different directories on different OS’s. YMMV. Apache 2 SSL FAQ

Network Solutions documentation is pretty poor as well, so one of their own techs emailed me the link below. I feel that NetSol should have better install docs for a product that costs almost one thousand dollars. When I got install docs from Thawte, they were clear, precise and made the install of the cert they issued a snap. NetSol not so much…

http://www.digicert.com/ssl-ev-certificate-installation-apache.htm

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ketan - Gravatar

ketan said on April 10, 2013, 1:28 am:

i have bundle file mention in below
AddTrustExternalCARoot.crt
NetworkSolutionsAddTrustEVServerCA.crt
tekinova.COM.crt

but when i am configure the ssl certificate on ubuntu server that time given to error private key related so where i can find the private key.

carsmic - Gravatar

carsmic said on May 20, 2013, 3:37 pm:

ketan,

The private key is generated when you create your Certificate Signing Request (CSR). You must have done this before you purchased the SSL certificate because the CSR is required input to build the certificate. The command to create the CSR and private key is something like this:

openssl req -out CSR.csr -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout privateKey.key

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