Installing an SSL Certificate in cPanel
While not mandatory, an SSL certificate enhances website security, crucial for secure login or e-commerce. This guide explains SSL certificate installation after CSR generation, certificate order, and verification.
An SSL certificate isn’t required on your website, but once you’ve added an SSL certificate, your site will be secure if you want to add secure login capabilities or ecommerce. If you haven’t read What Is an SSL Certificate?, check it out to decide if an SSL certificate is right for you. Before you try to install an SSL certificate, make sure you’ve:
Once you’ve completed those steps, this article will walk you through installing an SSL certificate on your domain.
- In your Liquid Web account, go to the SSL Certificates Dashboard, find the name of the domain for which you need the SSL details. Click on X509 Certificate under Certificates. Text should appear that looks very similar to your CSR. Copy this text. It might be easiest to paste it into a plaintext text editor for now.
- Now, log into WHM. In the left navigation, click on Install an SSL Certificate on a Domain in the SSL/TLS section. You can also search for “SSL.”
- Type in the Domain for which you have purchased the SSL. The IP address will automatically populate based on the domain.
- Paste the whole X509 certificate you copied from your SSL Certificates Dashboard in your Liquid Web account into the Certificate field.
- Then, copy and paste the whole private key from your CSR into the Private Key field.
- Click Install. The Certificate Authority Bundle will auto-populate.
- You’ve successfully installed an SSL certificate on your domain! You can make sure everything is installed correctly by running your domain name through an SSL checker.
