Adding a new certificate

In This Guide

Generate Live Certificate

  1. Select Domains & Certificates from the sidebar
  2. Click Add new certificate button and select Generate Live Certificate
  3. Enter the hostname you wish to use this certificate on within the Name field
  4. If you wish the certificate to cover any other hostnames, i.e. for a SAN, enter the additional hostnames into the Additional Names field
  5. In the options section choose how you wish the Lets Encrypt system to check resolution of your hostnames. DNS is the preferred option, although HTTP will work if you are using our Load Balancers.
  6. Click the Create Certificate button.

The certificate will be queued for issue with LetsEncrypt. The issuing of the cert. generally occurs within a couple of minutes unless any issues occur in respect to DNS resolution or HTTP errors.

Upload an Existing Certificate

  1. Select Domains & Certificates from the sidebar
  2. Click Add new certificate button and select Upload existing certificate
  3. Paste your PEM-encoded certificate into the Certificate field
  4. Provide your chain (if required; and PEM-encoded) into the Chain field.
  5. Enter your PEM-coded private key into the Private key field/
  6. Click the Create certificate button.

Generate Self-Signed Certificate

If you require a self-signed certificate you can create one by following these steps:

  1. Select Domains & Certificates from the sidebar
  2. Click Add new certificate button and select Generate self-signed certificate
  3. Enter the hostname of the virtual machine this self-signed certificate is for within the Name field.
  4. Provide any additional hostnames you require self-signing for in the Additional names field.
  5. Click the Create certificate button.