Cameronb

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Help trying to generate a CSR

I'm trying to get SSL and i need a CSR to do so, and I can get one through Cpanel, but mine isnt working, likego to ssl managment then go o the csr generator well on that page you see a drop down bar and it says host well i dont have any hosts. How do i get hosts? to make it work?
 
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krava

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Hello.

You can generate the CSR for the necessary domain via SSH:

#cd /apacheserverroot/conf/ssl.key

If you have a different path, cd to your server’s private key directory
#openssl genrsa -out domainname.key 1024
#openssl req -new -key domainname.key -out domainname.csr