Obtaining a public authority SSL certificate
We are now pretty comfortable with grabbing certificates from our own CA server inside our own network, but what about handling those SSL certificates for our web servers that should be acquired from a public certification authority? For many of you, this will be the most common interaction that you have with certificates, and it's very important to understand this side of the coin as well. When you need to acquire an SSL certificate from your public authority of choice, there is a three-step process that needs to be taken. Create a certificate request, submit the certificate request, and install the certificate. We are going to use my WEB1 server, on which I have a website running. Currently the site ...
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