- Login to the Plesk 7 Control
Panel.
- From the left hand menu, select
'Domains'.
- Click on the domain name that
the certificate is for.
- Click on the 'Certificates'
menu item.
- There is a button in the middle
of the page labelled 'Browse'. Click 'Browse' and
navigate to the location of the saved site
certificate you received from Comodo. Selecting
it, then select 'Send File', this will upload and
install the certificate against the corresponding
Private Key.
- The certificate name will now
appear in the list of certificates at the bottom
of the page.
- Click on the name of the
Certificate from the list.
- The box on the page labelled
'CA Certificate'. You will need to paste both the
Comodo intermediate certificate and GTE root
certificates from the .zip file you have received
into this box.
They must be pasted this in
order, the Comodo intermediate certificate first,
followed by the GTE root certificate, the result
will look similar to the example below (Please
note: no blank line between then end of one
certificate and the start of the next):
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEyDCCBDGgAwIBAgIEAgACmzANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQUFADBF
UzEYMBYGA1UEChMPR1RFIENvcnBvcmF0aW9uMRwwGgYDVQ
.....
zs1x+3QCB9xfFScIUwd21LkG6cJ3UB7KybDCRoGAADj
vA2AOurM+5pX7XilNj1W6tHndMo0w8+xUengDA==
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIB+jCCAWMCAgGjMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBBAUAMEUx
VQQKEw9HVEUgQ29ycG9yYXRpb24xHDAaBgNVBAMTE
.....
IjeaY8JIILTbcuPI9tl8vrGvU9oUtCG41tWW4/5ODFlitppKApy
bW1EDp3zdHSo1TRJ6V6e6bR64eVaH4QwnNOfpSXY
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
- Click the 'Send Text' button.
- Now click 'Up Level' from the
top right of the screen and choose 'Setup'.
- At the top of the page, change
the 'SSL Certificate' drop-down menu to the
certificate you have just installed.
- Click the 'Server' item from
the left hand menu.
- Click on the 'Service
Management' menu item.
- You now need to Stop and Start
the Apache process.
NOTE:
Restarting Apache will NOT work. You must stop the
service, then start it again to complete the
installation
NOTE:
When you add a certificate, it is not installed
automatically onto the domain or assigned to an IP
address, but only added to the Certificate
repository.
You can assign a certificate to an
IP address at the Client's IP pool, at the IP
aliasing management page, and during hosting
creation on an exclusively granted IP.
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