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Introduction
Having an SSL certificate for your website has a lot of benefits. Your visitors get data encryption, you get authentication, your data has integrity, i.e., no one can tamper with the data during transmission, SEO advantages such as search engine ranks HTTPS sites before HTTP, and lastly customer trust.
In this article, you will learn how to install an SSL certificate using a popular web hosting automation control panel called H-Sphere. Let’s get started.
Prerequisite
Before you start your SSL certificate installation on H-Sphere, make sure
- You generated a CSR and have an SSL Certificate. Follow our tutorial on “How to generate a CSR in H-Sphere Web Server” , where you can learn step-by-step instructions for CSR generation.
- Buy/renew your SSL certificate using CSR and private key files from a trusted certifying authority (CA), and store them on your local computer.
Step-by-Step SSL Certificate Installation on H-Sphere
If you comply with the above, then follow the below steps to install the primary and intermediate SSL certificates on H-Sphere.
Step 1: Open H-Sphere and log in to the control panel.
Step 2: Click the “SSL” option on your control panel.
Step 3: Move to the “web service page”, click on “Edit SSL”, and then click the “Import SSL Certificate option URL”.
Step 4: Paste the primary SSL certificate file data in the “Install Certificate based on previously generated certificate request” field.
To do this, first, open a text editor like Notes (on Mac) or Notepad (on Windows) then copy the entire text of your primary SSL file and paste it. After that, click “upload”.
Step 5: Next, go to the “Certificate Authority File” option from your H-Sphere control panel, and in the “Certificate Chain File” field, paste your intermediate certificate data. Then click “Submit”.
You have successfully installed the SSL certificate on H-Sphere!
Final Words
Always test your installation using SSL Checker Tool. You can verify the SSL certification by connecting your server to a web browser. If the installation was successful, you can see your site, xyz.com, as https://www.xyz.com.
